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DBMS > BigObject vs. HyperSQL vs. SiteWhere vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. HyperSQL vs. SiteWhere vs. TypeDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iohsqldb.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheretypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iohsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmltypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.SiteWhereVaticle
Initial release2015200120102016
Current release2.7.2, June 20232.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaJava, SQLno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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BigObjectHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBSiteWhereTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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