DBMS > BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. RDFox

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#14	Vector DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Website

bigobject.io

blueflood.io

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Rackspace

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2015

2013

2010

2015

2017

Current release

3.3 July 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

Roles, resources, and access types

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