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DBMS > BigObject vs. CouchDB vs. H2GIS vs. IRONdb vs. Kyligence Enterprise

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. CouchDB vs. H2GIS vs. IRONdb vs. Kyligence Enterprise

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Spatial extension of H2A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#269  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iocouchdb.apache.orgwww.h2gis.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/kyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprise
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerCNRSCirconus LLC.Kyligence, Inc.
Initial release20152005201320172016
Current release3.3.3, December 2023V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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 indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Java.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaView functions in JavaScriptyes infobased on H2yes, in Lua
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on H2configurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infobased on H2no

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