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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. OrientDB vs. Sphinx vs. TDengine vs. Trafodion

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTime Series DBMS and big data platformTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.ioorientdb.orgsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.tdengine.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSphinx Technologies Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos DataApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20152010200120192014
Current release3.2.29, March 20243.5.1, February 20233.0, August 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language, no joinsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocolJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaJava, JavascriptnonoJava Stored Procedures
TriggersnoHooksnoyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationnoneyesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes inforelationship in graphsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurablenoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BigObjectOrientDBSphinxTDengineTrafodion
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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