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DBMS > BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Infobright

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Infobright

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleCloud-based data warehousing serviceHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.ehcache.orggeospock.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.ehcache.org/­documentation
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGeoSpockIBMIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.
Initial release2015200920142005
Current release3.10.0, March 20222.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptC
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 VMhostedhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnotemporal, categoricalyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used instead
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheJDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonoPL/SQL, SQL PLno
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerAutomatic shardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby using Terracotta ServeryesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 tablesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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