DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.heavy.ai

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Softmotions

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2016

2012

2016

2004

Current release

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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