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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Datomic vs. Ingres vs. RRDtool vs. SiriDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  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 durabilityWell established RDBMSIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Open Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.datomic.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolsiridb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.datomic.comdocs.actian.com/­ingresoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.CognitectActian CorporationTobias OetikerCesbit
Initial release201520121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s19992017
Current release1.0.7075, December 202311.2, May 20221.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureCC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC
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 VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes infoNumeric data
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 availableno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
in-process shared library
Pipes
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes infoTransaction Functionsyesnono
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersIngres Replicatornoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoMVCCyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
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 developmentnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple rights management via user accounts

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