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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. DataFS vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

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.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

bigobject.io

newdatabase.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Mobiland AG

Embarcadero

Initial release

2015

2018

1984

2014

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

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)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Interbase Change Views

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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

Multiversion concurreny control

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

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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