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

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

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  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.In-memory JavaScript DBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document 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
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogreenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.FatCloudPivotal Software Inc.MonetDB BV
Initial release20152012200520142004
Current release7.0.0, September 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC#JavaScriptC
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
WindowsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 4.2no
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryesnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes infovia applicationsyesView functions in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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