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DBMS > BigObject vs. HBase vs. Ingres vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. HBase vs. Ingres vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiriDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableWell established RDBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iohbase.apache.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.postgres-xl.orgsiridb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iohbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetActian CorporationCesbit
Initial release201520081974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2017
Current release2.3.4, January 202111.2, May 202210 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCCC
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
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes infoNumeric data
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes infoCoprocessors in Javayesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyhorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres Replicatoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts

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