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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDF4J vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Well established RDBMS

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	3.63
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

rdf4j.org

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.siridb.com

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Cesbit

Initial release

2015

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2016

2004

2017

Current release

12.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

Java
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Ingres Replicator

yes

none

yes

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

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 storage is supported as well

yes

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

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

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