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DBMS > BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. OpenTSDB vs. TypeDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. OpenTSDB vs. TypeDB vs. Vitess

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesIn-memory caching systemScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query languageScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iocachelot.ioopentsdb.nettypedb.comvitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmltypedb.com/­docsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsVaticleThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20152015201120162013
Current release2.26.3, January 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaGo
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
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnononoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolHTTP API
Telnet API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanononoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoby using CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication infoby using CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeperno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono infosubstituted by the relationship featureyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.yesnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progressUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
More information provided by the system vendor
BigObjectCachelot.ioOpenTSDBTypeDB infoformerly named GraknVitess
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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