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DBMS > BigObject vs. BoltDB vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. BoltDB vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAn embedded key-value store for Go.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.In-memory JavaScript DBMSA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score7.71
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score1.23
Rank#165  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgreenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Pivotal Software Inc.VictoriaMetrics
Initial release20152013200520142018
Current release7.0.0, September 2023v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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.nonoyes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIGraphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesGoC
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyesView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationnoneSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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