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DBMS > Altibase vs. BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. PostGIS vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. PostGIS vs. RDFox

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraSpatial extension of PostgreSQLHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitealtibase.combigobject.ioblueflood.iopostgis.netwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikipostgis.net/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperAltibaseBigObject, Inc.RackspaceOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release19992015201320052017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.4.2, February 20246.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyespredefined schemeyesyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsLuanouser defined functions
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoyes infobased on PostgreSQLRoles, resources, and access types

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