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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Ingres vs. RDF4J vs. SiriDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Well established RDBMS

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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	3.63
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

rdf4j.org

siridb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.actian.com/ingres

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.siridb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Actian Corporation

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

Cesbit

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2015

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2004

2017

1987

Current release

12.0, July 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

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

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

yes

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)

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
PHP
Python

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Ingres Replicator

none

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

yes

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

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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