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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Derby vs. IBM Db2 vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

bigobject.io

db.apache.org/derby

www.ibm.com/products/db2

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

IBM

Initial release

2015

1997

1983

host version

2014

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

12.1, October 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free version is available

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

Java

C and C++

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)

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

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

Data scheme

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.

yes

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

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Java Stored Procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

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

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

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