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DBMS > BigObject vs. Brytlyt vs. Heroic vs. MonetDB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Brytlyt vs. Heroic vs. MonetDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA relational database management system that stores data in columnsSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#276  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitebigobject.iobrytlyt.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.monetdb.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.brytlyt.iospotify.github.io/­heroicwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.BrytlytSpotifyMonetDB BVAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20152016201420042008
Current release5.0, August 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++ and CUDAJavaCC++
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
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLnoyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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