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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Datomic vs. InfluxDB vs. SpaceTime vs. TimesTen

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.datomic.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.datomic.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.CognitectMireoOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20152012201320201998
Current release1.0.7075, December 20232.7.6, April 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureGoC++
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 infothrough Homebrew
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
JSON over UDP
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
C++
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes infoTransaction FunctionsnonoPL/SQL
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infoin enterprise version onlyFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
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 developmentyes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonosimple rights management via user accountsyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BigObjectDatomicInfluxDBSpaceTimeTimesTen
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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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