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DBMS > BigObject vs. Galaxybase vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Galaxybase vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. SurrealDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformAnalytic 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 fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score1.11
Rank#174  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogalaxybase.comgreenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Pivotal Software Inc.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20152017200520142022
Current releaseNov 20, November 20217.0.0, September 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaScriptRust
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemayesschema-freeschema-free
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.nonoyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined procedures and functionsyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno 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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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