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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. InfinityDB vs. MaxDB vs. Prometheus

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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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	7.56
Rank	#49	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Boiler Bay Inc.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2015

2002

1984

2015

Current release

4.0

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

Numeric data only

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 of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

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)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

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

Immediate Consistency

none

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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