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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Cassandra vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. OceanBase

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessAnalytic 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 distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Document store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iocassandra.apache.orggreenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSen.oceanbase.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iocassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-database
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookPivotal Software Inc.OceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant Group
Initial release20152008200520142010
Current release4.1.3, July 20237.0.0, September 20234.3.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoCommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++
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
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 4.2noyes
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptAda infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyesView functions in JavaScriptPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication using Paxos
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate 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 datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDno 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 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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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