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DBMS > BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. Kingbase vs. LokiJS vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. Kingbase vs. LokiJS vs. ObjectBox

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesIn-memory caching systemAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.In-memory JavaScript DBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitebigobject.iocachelot.iowww.kingbase.com.cngithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSobjectbox.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iotechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.ObjectBox Limited
Initial release20152015199920142017
Current releaseV8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and JavaJavaScriptC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoStandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JavaScript APIProprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScriptC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes 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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes
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