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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. DataFS vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Website

bigobject.io

newdatabase.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Mobiland AG

Google

Initial release

2015

2018

2015

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

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

Windows-Profile

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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