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

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

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  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.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.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.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iogreenplum.orgwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.greenplum.orgdocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.FatCloudPivotal Software Inc.Kinetica
Initial release20152012200520122014
Current release7.0.0, September 20237.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC#C, C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
WindowsLinuxLinuxserver-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.noyes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServeryesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#C
Java
Perl
Python
R
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes infovia applicationsyesuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono 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.yesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno

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