DBMS > BigObject vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenTenBase vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenTenBase vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

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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

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

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	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

www.snowflake.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

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

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

InterSystems

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2015

2018

2014

2012

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

2.5, January 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, JavaScript

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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

yes

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