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DBMS > BigObject vs. Drizzle vs. FatDB vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Drizzle vs. FatDB vs. Kinetica

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Drizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerFatCloudKinetica
Initial release2015200820122012
Current release7.2.4, September 20127.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C#C, C++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infowith proprietary extensionsno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C#C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyes infovia applicationsuser defined functions
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infovia applicationsyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
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.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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