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

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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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
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Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.firebolt.io

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2015

2020

2013

2010

Current release

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, 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

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

JavaScript

Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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