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DBMS > BigObject vs. Firebolt vs. Kinetica vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Firebolt vs. Kinetica vs. TDengine

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#107  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.firebolt.iowww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.firebolt.iodocs.kinetica.comdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Firebolt Analytics Inc.KineticaTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2015202020122019
Current release7.1, August 20213.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++C
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
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.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes
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BigObjectFireboltKineticaTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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