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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. BigObject vs. EJDB vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

bigobject.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

greenplum.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

docs.bigobject.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.greenplum.org

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Alibaba

BigObject, Inc.

Softmotions

Pivotal Software Inc.

Initial release

2015

2012

2005

2014

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

server-less

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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