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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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational 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	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

bigobject.io

boilerbay.com

postgis.net

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

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

postgis.net/documentation

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Boiler Bay Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2002

2005

2019

Current release

4.0

3.4.2, February 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

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)

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

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.

yes

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

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)

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

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

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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