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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. DataFS vs. EJDB vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

bigobject.io

newdatabase.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

docs.bigobject.io

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

BigObject, Inc.

Mobiland AG

Softmotions

Initial release

2016

2015

2018

2012

2014

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

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)

Windows

server-less

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

Data scheme

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

in-process shared library

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

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

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

Windows-Profile

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