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DBMS > BigObject vs. Ingres vs. PostGIS vs. SiriDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Ingres vs. PostGIS vs. SiriDB vs. Transbase

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesWell established RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen Source Time Series DBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score3.63
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#355  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.actian.com/­databases/­ingrespostgis.netsiridb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.actian.com/­ingrespostgis.net/­documentationdocs.siridb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Actian CorporationCesbitTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20151974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s200520171987
Current release12.0, July 20243.4.2, February 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCCC and C++
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
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoNumeric datayes
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 availableyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneIngres Replicatoryes infobased on PostgreSQLyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infoMVCCyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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