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DBMS > BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. EsgynDB vs. Quasardb vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. EsgynDB vs. Quasardb vs. RethinkDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.ehcache.orgwww.esgyn.cnquasar.airethinkdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.ehcache.org/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AGEsgynquasardbThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20152009201520092009
Current release3.10.0, March 20223.14.1, January 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, JavaC++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 VMLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event ListenersnonoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyeswith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes infousers and table-level permissions

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