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DBMS > BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. InfinityDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. InfinityDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SiriDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceWidely used in-process key-value storeOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.exasol.comboilerbay.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlsiridb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.exasol.com/­resourcesboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.siridb.com
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.ExasolBoiler Bay Inc.Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleCesbit
Initial release20152000200219942017
Current release4.018.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysnoyes 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.nononoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
Java.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoonly for the SQL APIno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
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.yesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnonosimple rights management via user accounts

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