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DBMS > BigObject vs. Dragonfly vs. SiriDB vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Dragonfly vs. SiriDB vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 instanceOpen Source Time Series DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#255  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
siridb.comterminusdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.siridb.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.DragonflyDB team and community contributorsCesbitDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20152023201720182011
Current release1.0, March 202311.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CProlog, RustC#
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxLinuxLinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesscheme-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes infoNumeric datayesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.Net
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++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaLuanoyesno
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPassword-based authenticationsimple rights management via user accountsRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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