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DBMS > BigObject vs. Databend vs. Graphite vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Databend vs. Graphite vs. IRONdb

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.30
Rank#287  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
github.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.databend.comgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Databend LabsChris DavisCirconus LLC.
Initial release2015202120062017
Current release1.0.59, April 2023V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageRustPythonC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hosted
Linux
macOS
Linux
Unix
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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 indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.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 proceduresLuanonoyes, in Lua
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesnono

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