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DBMS > BigObject vs. PostGIS vs. RDFox vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. PostGIS vs. RDFox vs. XTDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iopostgis.netwww.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iopostgis.net/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Oxford Semantic TechnologiesJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2015200520172019
Current release3.4.2, February 20246.0, Septermber 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLreplication via a shared file systemyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLRoles, resources, and access types

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