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DBMS > BigObject vs. Firebolt vs. HyperSQL vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Firebolt vs. HyperSQL vs. Sequoiadb

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.firebolt.iohsqldb.orgwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.firebolt.iohsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Firebolt Analytics Inc.Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2015202020012013
Current release2.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoJava, SQLJavaScript
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layernoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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