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DBMS > BigObject vs. Firebolt vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Sequoiadb vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Firebolt vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Sequoiadb vs. Spark SQL

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseCloud-based data warehousing serviceNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.firebolt.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.sequoiadb.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.firebolt.iowww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Firebolt Analytics Inc.IBMSequoiadb Ltd.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20152020201420132014
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
proprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoPL/SQL, SQL PLJavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layeryesSource-replica replicationnone
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 tablesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDDocument is locked during a transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlno

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