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DBMS > BigObject vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sequoiadb vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sequoiadb vs. TerarkDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.postgres-xl.orgwww.sequoiadb.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Sequoiadb Ltd.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20132016
Current release10 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++
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
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexno
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
proprietary protocol using JSONC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsJavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoMVCCDocument is locked during a transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlno

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