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DBMS > BigObject vs. Faircom DB vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. PlanetScale

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Faircom DB vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. PlanetScale

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Analytic 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 DBMSScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbgreenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSplanetscale.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.FairCom CorporationPivotal Software Inc.PlanetScale
Initial release20151979200520142020
Current releaseV12, November 20207.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++JavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyesnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yesView functions in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).Source-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanotunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes 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 controlnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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