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DBMS > BigObject vs. EJDB vs. Graphite vs. Greenplum vs. Infobright

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. EJDB vs. Graphite vs. Greenplum vs. Infobright

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperAnalytic 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.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#342  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score0.30
Rank#294  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score9.23
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.00
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgreenplum.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.greenplum.org
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.SoftmotionsChris DavisPivotal Software Inc.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.
Initial release20152012200620052005
Current release7.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCPythonC
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
server-lessLinux
Unix
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 indexesyesnonoyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used instead
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
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 infoStored proceduresLuanonoyesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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