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DBMS > BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. Firebird vs. RDFox vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. Firebird vs. RDFox vs. Riak KV

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.ioblueflood.iowww.firebirdsql.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.RackspaceFirebird FoundationOxford Semantic TechnologiesOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release201520132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20172009
Current release5.0.0, January 20246.0, Septermber 20223.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++Erlang
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
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoPSQLErlang
Triggersnonoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationreplication via a shared file systemselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRoles, resources, and access typesyes, using Riak Security

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