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DBMS > BigObject vs. InfluxDB vs. RDF4J vs. Riak KV vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. InfluxDB vs. RDF4J vs. Riak KV vs. YottaDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSRDF storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewrdf4j.orgyottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20152013200420092001
Current release2.7.6, April 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaErlangC
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 infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenonoby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyesErlang
Triggersnonoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsnoyes, using Riak SecurityUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms
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BigObjectInfluxDBRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameRiak KVYottaDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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