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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. Firebolt vs. InterSystems IRIS

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.ehcache.org

www.firebolt.io

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.firebolt.io

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

InterSystems

Initial release

2015

2009

2020

2018

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2023.3, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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