DBMS > BigObject vs. Google BigQuery vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. PieCloudDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Google BigQuery vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

greenplum.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.greenplum.org

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Google

Pivotal Software Inc.

OpenPie

Initial release

2015

2010

2005

2014

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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