DBMS > BigObject vs. OrientDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. OrientDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#88	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

orientdb.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

SiteWhere

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2010

2014

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

predefined scheme

yes

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

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Java, Javascript

user defined functions

Triggers

Hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

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

relationship in graphs

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

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