DBMS > BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RDFox vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RDFox vs. SWC-DB

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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

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

bigobject.io

blueflood.io

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Rackspace

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2015

2013

2010

2017

2020

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

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
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
Java

C++

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

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

Immediate Consistency

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

Roles, resources, and access types

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