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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Graph Engine vs. Ingres vs. SiriDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Well established RDBMS

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

bigobject.io

www.graphengine.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

siridb.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.siridb.com

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Microsoft

Actian Corporation

Cesbit

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2015

2010

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2017

2001

Current release

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and 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)

.NET

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

HTTP API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

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

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Ingres Replicator

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

simple rights management via user accounts

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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