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DBMS > BigObject vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. TigerGraph

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud 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 complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitebigobject.iocloud.google.com/­datastoregreenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iocloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.GooglePivotal Software Inc.
Initial release20152008200520142017
Current release7.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, details hereyesnoyes
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 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (GQL)yesnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuausing Google App EngineyesView functions in JavaScriptyes
TriggersnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication using PaxosSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACIDno 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.yesnonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access control

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