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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Softmotions

Initial release

2015

2012

2013

Current release

2.7.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

server-less

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

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Market metrics

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