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DBMS > BigObject vs. Dragonfly vs. GeoSpock vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Dragonfly vs. GeoSpock vs. MonetDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
geospock.comwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.DragonflyDB team and community contributorsGeoSpockMonetDB BV
Initial release201520232004
Current release1.0, March 20232.0, September 2019Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Java, JavascriptC
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesscheme-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesnotemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBCJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaLuanoyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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