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DBMS > BigObject vs. Dragonfly vs. Galaxybase vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Dragonfly vs. Galaxybase vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformAnalytic 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 DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#255  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
galaxybase.comgreenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.DragonflyDB team and community contributorsChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Pivotal Software Inc.
Initial release20152023201720052014
Current release1.0, March 2023Nov 20, November 20217.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxLinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesscheme-freeStrong typed schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesno
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.nononoyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Go
Java
Python
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaLuauser defined procedures and functionsyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.yesyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPassword-based authenticationRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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