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DBMS > BigObject vs. Brytlyt vs. Datomic vs. HugeGraph vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Brytlyt vs. Datomic vs. HugeGraph vs. PostGIS

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#288  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitebigobject.iobrytlyt.iowww.datomic.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
postgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.brytlyt.iodocs.datomic.comhugegraph.apache.org/­docspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.BrytlytCognitectBaidu
Initial release20152016201220182005
Current release5.0, August 20231.0.6735, June 20230.93.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++ and CUDAJava, ClojureJavaC
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
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Groovy
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLyes infoTransaction Functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsuser defined functions
TriggersnoyesBy using transaction functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyes infoedges in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers, roles and permissionsyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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