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DBMS > BigObject vs. Infobright vs. Postgres-XL vs. Rockset vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Infobright vs. Postgres-XL vs. Rockset vs. StarRocks

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.ioignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.postgres-xl.orgrockset.comwww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.rockset.comdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.RocksetThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release201520052014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20192020
Current release10 R1, October 20182.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCCC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesdynamic typingyes
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP RESTJDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanouser defined functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoMVCCnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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