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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. gStore vs. PostGIS vs. RDFox

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Secondary database models

Relational 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	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

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

Website

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

postgis.net/documentation

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Rackspace

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2015

2013

2016

2005

2017

Current release

1.2, November 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

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

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Roles, resources, and access types

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