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DBMS > BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. Datomic vs. DuckDB vs. InfinityDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. Datomic vs. DuckDB vs. InfinityDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.ioblueflood.iowww.datomic.comduckdb.orgboilerbay.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.datomic.comduckdb.org/­docsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.RackspaceCognitectBoiler Bay Inc.
Initial release20152013201220182002
Current release1.0.7075, December 20231.0.0, June 20244.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureC++Java
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
All OS with a Java VMserver-lessAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyes infoTransaction Functionsnono
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandranone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnononono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonononono

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