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DBMS > BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. CockroachDB vs. MonetDB vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. CockroachDB vs. MonetDB vs. RDFox

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitebigobject.ioblueflood.iowww.cockroachlabs.comwww.monetdb.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.RackspaceCockroach LabsMonetDB BVOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20152013201520042017
Current release24.1.0, May 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 20236.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoCC++
Server operating systemsLinux 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
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemedynamic schemayesyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJDBCJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonoyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication using RAFTnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRoles, resources, and access types

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