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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Infobright vs. NuoDB vs. SwayDB

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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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

bigobject.io

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2015

2005

2013

2018

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

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

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

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

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

Supported programming languages

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

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

tunable commit protocol

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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