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DBMS > BigObject vs. Graphite vs. Hypertable vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Graphite vs. Hypertable vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#306  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iographite.readthedocs.iogithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Chris DavisHypertable Inc.GoogleMicrosoft
Initial release20152006200920142015
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20162.1.12, February 2017V1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safarihosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlynoyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
C++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanononono
TriggersnononoUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factor on file system levelnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonononoyes infousing Azure authentication

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