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DBMS > BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RDFox

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score5.80
Rank#60  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score29.04
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Websitebigobject.ioblueflood.iowww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterpriseazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.datastax.comlearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.RackspaceDataStaxMicrosoftOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20152013201120142017
Current release6.8, April 20206.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
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
OS X
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoJSON typesyes
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 infoAll properties auto-indexed by default
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonoJavaScript
TriggersnonoyesJavaScript
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicereplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyeswith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionACID
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRoles, resources, and access types
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BigObjectBluefloodDatastax EnterpriseMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDBRDFox
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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