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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. GigaSpaces vs. PostGIS vs. RDFox

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Spatial DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitebigobject.ioblueflood.iowww.gigaspaces.compostgis.netwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.RackspaceGigaspaces TechnologiesOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20152013200020052017
Current release15.5, September 20203.4.2, February 20246.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetCC++
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
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyesuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes, event driven architectureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes infobased on PostgreSQLreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
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.yesnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLRoles, resources, and access types

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