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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

bigobject.io

hbase.apache.org

opennms.github.io/newts

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

OpenNMS Group

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2015

2008

2014

2012

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Coprocessors in Java

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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