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DBMS > BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. FoundationDB vs. GridDB vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. FoundationDB vs. GridDB vs. RDFox

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitebigobject.ioblueflood.iogithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgriddb.netwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.griddb.netdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.RackspaceFoundationDBToshiba CorporationOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20152013201320132017
Current release6.2.28, November 20205.1, August 20226.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++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
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infosome layers support typingyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyes
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 indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnosupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)no
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoin SQL-layer onlyno
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesSource-replica replicationreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Linearizable consistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID at container levelACID
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 controlnononoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRoles, resources, and access types
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BigObjectBluefloodFoundationDBGridDBRDFox
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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