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

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

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  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.In-memory JavaScript DBMSA typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.76
Rank#219  Overall
#14  Search engines
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
greenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJStypesense.org
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJStypesense.org/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.DragonflyDB team and community contributorsPivotal Software Inc.
Initial release20152023200520142015
Current release1.0, March 20237.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesscheme-freeyesschema-freeschema-free infopre-defined schema optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesnoyes
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 4.2no
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP 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
JavaScript.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaLuayesView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
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 persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
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-standardno

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