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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Ingres vs. SiriDB vs. SQL.JS vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Well established RDBMS

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

siridb.com

sql.js.org

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

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.siridb.com

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

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

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Cesbit

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2015

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2017

2012

1987

Current release

11.2, May 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

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

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

HTTP API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Ingres Replicator

yes

none

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

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

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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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