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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. DataFS vs. Graphite vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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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.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

newdatabase.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

graphite.readthedocs.io

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Mobiland AG

Chris Davis

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2015

2018

2006

1992

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

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

Linux
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

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

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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