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DBMS > BigObject vs. Drizzle vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Drizzle vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. SiteWhere

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.kinetica.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Drizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014KineticaSiteWhere
Initial release20152008201020122010
Current release7.2.4, September 20127.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC, C++Java
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
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles on table levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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