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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Derby vs. EDB Postgres vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

db.apache.org/derby

www.enterprisedb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

EnterpriseDB

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2015

1997

2005

2008

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

14, December 2021

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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