DBMS > BigObject vs. Drizzle vs. FatDB vs. SingleStore vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Drizzle vs. FatDB vs. SingleStore vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

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.

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

MySQL 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.

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.singlestore.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.singlestore.com

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

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

FatCloud

SingleStore Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2015

2008

2012

2013

2008

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

8.5, January 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

free developer edition available

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

C++

C++, Go

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)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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