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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Infobright vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Cloud-based data warehousing service

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

IBM

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Initial release

2015

2014

2005

2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

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

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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