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DBMS > BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. Databricks vs. IRONdb vs. LMDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. Databricks vs. IRONdb vs. LMDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score84.24
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Document stores
#9  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#120  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.ioblueflood.iowww.databricks.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdb
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.databricks.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.lmdb.tech/­doc
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.RackspaceDatabricksCirconus LLC.Symas
Initial release20152013201320172011
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20180.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C
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
hostedLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnowith Databricks SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanouser defined functions and aggregatesyes, in Luano
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
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 per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
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.yesnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononono
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BigObjectBluefloodDatabricksIRONdbLMDB
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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