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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

In-memory caching system

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

cachelot.io

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2015

2010

2011

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Java

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

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Optimistic locking

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 rights for users can be defined per database

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