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DBMS > BigObject vs. Infobright vs. RDF4J vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Infobright vs. RDF4J vs. SpatiaLite

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRDF storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitebigobject.ioignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbrdf4j.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iordf4j.org/­documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release2015200520042008
Current release5.0.0, August 2020
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 infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC++
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
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyesno
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
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 wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesnono

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