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DBMS > BigObject vs. Derby vs. LeanXcale vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Derby vs. LeanXcale vs. LokiJS

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iodb.apache.org/­derbywww.leanxcale.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Apache Software FoundationLeanXcale
Initial release2015199720152014
Current release10.17.1.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes infothrough Apache Derbyno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
Java
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaJava Stored ProceduresView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
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.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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