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DBMS > BigObject vs. EDB Postgres vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Ingres vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. EDB Postgres vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Ingres vs. SiriDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceWell established RDBMSOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#131  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#162  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score3.63
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.enterprisedb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingressiridb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.EnterpriseDBIBMActian CorporationCesbit
Initial release2015200520141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2017
Current release14, December 202112.0, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCCC
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infoNumeric data
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no infoImport/export of XML data possibleno infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.PL/SQL, SQL PLyesno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyesIngres Replicatoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoMVCCyes
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.yesnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts

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