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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. InfinityDB vs. Manticore Search vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

manual.manticoresearch.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Boiler Bay Inc.

Manticore Software

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2002

2017

2018

Current release

4.0

6.0, February 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

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