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DBMS > BigObject vs. Geode vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. RethinkDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Geode vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. RethinkDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogeode.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisrethinkdb.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsrethinkdb.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.InterSystemsThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20152002201820092018
Current release1.1, February 20172023.3, June 20232.4.1, August 202011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (OQL)yesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsyesyes
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event ListenersyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding inforange basedGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single nodeACIDAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights per client and object definableyesyes infousers and table-level permissionsRole-based access control
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