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DBMS > BigObject vs. Dragonfly vs. Greenplum vs. H2 vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Dragonfly vs. Greenplum vs. H2 vs. LokiJS

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonH2  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 instanceAnalytic 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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#255  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score7.71
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score7.57
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
greenplum.orgwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.DragonflyDB team and community contributorsPivotal Software Inc.Thomas Mueller
Initial release20152023200520052014
Current release1.0, March 20237.0.0, September 20232.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesscheme-freeyesyesschema-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.nonoyes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
ODBC
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
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaLuayesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesyesno
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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.yesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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