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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. GraphDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TDengine

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesIn-memory caching systemEnterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#342  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#64  Key-value stores
Score3.10
Rank#100  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score2.73
Rank#108  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#109  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iocachelot.iowww.ontotext.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iographdb.ontotext.com/­documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.tdengine.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.OntotextIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20152015200020102019
Current release10.4, October 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoSimplified BSD Licensecommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaErlangC
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 VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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 indexesyesnoyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnostored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCnoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolGeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanowell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilityView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnononoyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes infoConstraint checkingnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.Access rights for users can be defined per databaseyes
More information provided by the system vendor
BigObjectCachelot.ioGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMIBM CloudantTDengine
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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