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DBMS > BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. IBM Cloudant vs. ITTIA vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. IBM Cloudant vs. ITTIA vs. LokiJS

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAnalytic 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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.44
Rank#267  Overall
#23  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iogreenplum.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ittia.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.greenplum.orgcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Pivotal Software Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014ITTIA L.L.C.
Initial release20152005201020072014
Current release7.0.0, September 20238.7
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangC and 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)
LinuxhostedLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalno
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 4.2nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleyesno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.yesnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseDatabase file passwordsno

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