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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. chDB vs. Ingres vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

Well established RDBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.postgres-xl.org

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

doc.chdb.io

docs.actian.com/ingres

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.siridb.com

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Cesbit

Initial release

2015

2023

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2017

Current release

11.2, May 2022

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

server-less

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

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

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Ingres Replicator

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

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 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

simple rights management via user accounts

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