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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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Wide column store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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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	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

bigobject.io

cachelot.io

hbase.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2015

2008

2009

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

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, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

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

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

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

restricted

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

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, using Riak Security

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