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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenTSDB vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

bigobject.io

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

opentsdb.net

www.snowflake.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

InterSystems

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2018

2011

2014

2019

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

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
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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