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DBMS > BigObject vs. Ignite vs. openGauss vs. SpaceTime vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Ignite vs. openGauss vs. SpaceTime vs. XTDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitebigobject.ioignite.apache.orggitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.ioapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
www.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Apache Software FoundationHuawei and openGauss communityMireoJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20152015201920202019
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.63.0, March 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetC, C++, JavaC++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLANSI SQL 2011A subset of ANSI SQL is implementedlimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
C#
C++
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesnono
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Fixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes

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