DBMS > BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. EDB Postgres vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. EDB Postgres vs. Realm

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

realm.io/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Rackspace

EnterpriseDB

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2015

2013

2005

2014

Current release

14, December 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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