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DBMS > BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. RDFox

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Document storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitebigobject.ioblueflood.iocloud.google.com/­bigtablefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikicloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.RackspaceGoogleGoogleOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20152013201520172017
Current release6.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++
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
hostedhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnononono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
Triggersnononoyes, with Cloud Functions
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 CassandraInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesMulti-source replicationreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesUsing Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic single-row operationsyesACID
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Roles, resources, and access types

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