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DBMS > BigObject vs. FatDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. FatDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleAnalytic 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 DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iogeospock.comgreenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.FatCloudGeoSpockPivotal Software Inc.
Initial release2015201220052014
Current release2.0, September 20197.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC#Java, JavascriptJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
WindowshostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes infovia applicationsnoyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic shardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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