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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. BoltDB vs. Ehcache vs. InfluxDB vs. Linter

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAn embedded key-value store for Go.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsRDBMS for high security requirements
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.ehcache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewlinter.ru
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AGrelex.ru
Initial release20152013200920131990
Current release3.10.0, March 20222.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaGoC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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 indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheHTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesGoJava.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanononoyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infoby using Terracotta Serverselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnononosimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
BigObjectBoltDBEhcacheInfluxDBLinter
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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