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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. EsgynDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. RavenDB vs. Riak KV

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.esgyn.cnwww.postgres-xl.orgravendb.net
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationravendb.net/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.EsgynHibernating RhinosOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release201520152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20102009
Current release10 R1, October 20185.4, July 20223.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaCC#Erlang
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxLinux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language (RQL)no
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaJava Stored Proceduresuser defined functionsyesErlang
Triggersnonoyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoMVCCACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseyes, using Riak Security

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