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DBMS > BigObject vs. Datomic vs. Riak KV vs. SpaceTime vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Datomic vs. Riak KV vs. SpaceTime vs. TimesTen

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  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 durabilityDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSpaceTime 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 DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.datomic.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.datomic.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.CognitectOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesMireoOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20152012200920201998
Current release1.0.7075, December 20233.2.0, December 202211 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureErlangC++
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
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesrestrictednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes infoTransaction FunctionsErlangnoPL/SQL
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infono "single point of failure"Fixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factorReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono infolinks between data sets can be storednoyes
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 developmentnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes, using Riak Securityyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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