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DBMS > BigObject vs. Graph Engine vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Graph Engine vs. XTDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 engineA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.MicrosoftJuxt Ltd.
Initial release201520102019
Current release1.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation language.NET and CClojure
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
.NETAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
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, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno

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BigObjectGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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