DBMS > BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. Infobright vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. Infobright vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

bigobject.io

greenplum.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.greenplum.org

docs.objectbox.io

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Pivotal Software Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle

Initial release

2015

2005

2017

2007

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

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