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DBMS > BigObject vs. DataFS vs. InfluxDB vs. Kingbase vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. DataFS vs. InfluxDB vs. Kingbase vs. Riak KV

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAll 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.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#369  Overall
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#258  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.ionewdatabase.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.kingbase.com.cn
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Mobiland AGBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20152018201319992009
Current release1.1.263, October 20222.7.6, April 2024V8.0, August 20213.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and JavaErlang
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
WindowsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)schema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesno
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanouser defined functionsErlang
Triggersnono, except callback-events from server when changes happenednoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneProprietary Sharding systemSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnoWindows-Profilesimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Security
More information provided by the system vendor
BigObjectDataFSInfluxDBKingbaseRiak KV
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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