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DBMS > BigObject vs. Datomic vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Datomic vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  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 durabilityA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.datomic.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.kinetica.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.datomic.comdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.kinetica.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.CognitectInterSystemsKineticaOracle
Initial release20152012201820122007
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232023.3, June 20237.1, August 202114.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC, C++Java
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
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes infoTransaction Functionsyesuser defined functionsno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency level
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 configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoconfigurable
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 infooptionally
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 developmentyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication
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