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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Firebolt vs. Ingres vs. RethinkDB vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Well established RDBMS

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	3.63
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.firebolt.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

rethinkdb.com

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.firebolt.io

docs.actian.com/ingres

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.siridb.com

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Actian Corporation

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Cesbit

Initial release

2015

2020

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2009

2017

Current release

12.0, July 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

Numeric data

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

range based

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Ingres Replicator

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

MVCC

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

simple rights management via user accounts

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