DBMS > BigObject vs. Graph Engine vs. SQL.JS vs. TempoIQ vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Graph Engine vs. SQL.JS vs. TempoIQ vs. XTDB

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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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	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

bigobject.io

www.graphengine.io

sql.js.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Microsoft

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

TempoIQ

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2010

2012

2019

Current release

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

JavaScript

Clojure

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

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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-92 is not fully supported

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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 authentication-based access control

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