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DBMS > BigObject vs. Datomic vs. Hypertable vs. Ingres vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Datomic vs. Hypertable vs. Ingres vs. SQream DB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopWell established RDBMSa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.datomic.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingressqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.datomic.comdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.CognitectHypertable Inc.Actian CorporationSQream Technologies
Initial release2015201220091974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2017
Current release1.0.6735, June 20230.9.8.11, March 201611.2, May 20222022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++CC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes infoTransaction Functionsnoyesuser defined functions in Python
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyhorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factor on file system levelIngres Replicatornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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