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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. NSDb vs. Riak KV vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

bigobject.io

nsdb.io

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2015

2017

2009

2018

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Erlang

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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, using Riak Security

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