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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Infobright vs. KeyDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.keydb.dev

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2015

2005

2019

1998

Current release

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

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)

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

PL/SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

simple password-based access control and ACL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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