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DBMS > BigObject vs. Ingres vs. MonetDB vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Ingres vs. MonetDB vs. Tkrzw

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesWell established RDBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.monetdb.orgdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Actian CorporationMonetDB BVMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20151974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20042020
Current release11.2, May 2022Dec2023 (11.49), December 20230.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCCC++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneIngres Replicatornone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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