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DBMS > BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. IBM Db2 vs. LokiJS vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. IBM Db2 vs. LokiJS vs. Newts

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  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.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxIn-memory JavaScript DBMSTime Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogreenplum.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.greenplum.orgwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2techfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Pivotal Software Inc.IBMOpenNMS Group
Initial release201520051983 infohost version20142014
Current release7.0.0, September 202312.1, October 2016
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree version is availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-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.noyes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
JavaScript APIHTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
JavaScriptJava
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesyesView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionnoneSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)noneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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