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DBMS > BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. GridDB vs. RDFox vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. GridDB vs. RDFox vs. Splice Machine

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
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
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.ioblueflood.iogriddb.netwww.oxfordsemantic.techsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.griddb.netdocs.oxfordsemantic.techsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.RackspaceToshiba CorporationOxford Semantic TechnologiesSplice Machine
Initial release20152013201320172014
Current release5.1, August 20226.0, Septermber 20223.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Java
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
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)noyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonoyes infoJava
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationreplication via a shared file systemMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID at container levelACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.yesnoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRoles, resources, and access typesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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BigObjectBluefloodGridDBRDFoxSplice Machine
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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