DBMS > BigObject vs. H2GIS vs. NuoDB vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. H2GIS vs. NuoDB vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Spatial extension of H2

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
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Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

bigobject.io

www.h2gis.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

doc.nuodb.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

CNRS

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2013

2009

2013

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

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)

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

based on H2

Java, SQL

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on H2

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

tunable commit protocol

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes, using Riak Security

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