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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SiriDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	72.95
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

siridb.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.siridb.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Microsoft

Cesbit

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2010

2017

2018

Current release

V12

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

Linux

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

Journaling Streams

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 journaling

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

Role-based access control

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