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DBMS > BigObject vs. Graph Engine vs. PouchDB vs. Prometheus vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Graph Engine vs. PouchDB vs. Prometheus vs. TimescaleDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.graphengine.iopouchdb.comprometheus.iowww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualpouchdb.com/­guidesprometheus.io/­docsdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.MicrosoftApache Software FoundationTimescale
Initial release20152010201220152017
Current release7.1.1, June 20192.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CJavaScriptGoC
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
.NETserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoNumeric data onlynumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nononono infoImport of XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnononoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaScript.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesView functions in JavaScriptnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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