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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. Ehcache vs. OrientDB vs. QuestDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesIn-memory caching systemA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)A high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iocachelot.iowww.ehcache.orgorientdb.orgquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AGOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20152015200920102014
Current release3.10.0, March 20223.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoSQL-like query language, no joinsSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolJCacheTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonoJava, Javascriptno
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event ListenersHooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
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 tablesnonoyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes 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 infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable
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BigObjectCachelot.ioEhcacheOrientDBQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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