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DBMS > BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb vs. LMDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb vs. LMDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score1.94
Rank#120  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.ioblueflood.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdb
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikicloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.lmdb.tech/­doc
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.RackspaceIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Circonus LLC.Symas
Initial release20152013201020172011
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20180.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangC and 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
hostedLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in Luano
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenono

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