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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

In-memory caching system

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Wide column store

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

hbase.apache.org/book.html

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2015

2008

2009

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Memcached protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes

users and table-level permissions

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