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DBMS > BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. InfluxDB vs. Linter vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. InfluxDB vs. Linter vs. OpenTSDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsRDBMS for high security requirementsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score4.79
Rank#66  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#368  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.ehcache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewlinter.ruopentsdb.net
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AGrelex.rucurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20152009201319902011
Current release3.10.0, March 20222.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC and C++Java
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 VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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 indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheHTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonoyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLno
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby using Terracotta Serverselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
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 Consistency infobased on HBase
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 resourcenoACIDno
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.yesyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonosimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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BigObjectEhcacheInfluxDBLinterOpenTSDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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