DBMS > BigObject vs. EJDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Greenplum vs. Infobright

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. EJDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Greenplum vs. Infobright

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	4.49
Rank	#79	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	9.23
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.00
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

cloud.google.com/datastore

greenplum.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

docs.greenplum.org

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Softmotions

Google

Pivotal Software Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Initial release

2015

2012

2008

2005

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

server-less

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes, details here

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

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

using Google App Engine

yes

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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