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DBMS > BigObject vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedSpatial DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitebigobject.iopostgis.netpouchdb.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iopostgis.net/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release2015200520122017
Current release3.4.2, February 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
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)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoRole-based access control

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