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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Ingres vs. SiriDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Well established RDBMS

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

bigobject.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

siridb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.siridb.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

IBM

Actian Corporation

Cesbit

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2014

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2017

2019

Current release

11.2, May 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Clojure

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

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Ingres Replicator

yes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate 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

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

simple rights management via user accounts

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