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DBMS > BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. Ingres vs. LokiJS vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. Ingres vs. LokiJS vs. RethinkDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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.Well established RDBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMSDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iogreenplum.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.greenplum.orgdocs.actian.com/­ingrestechfort.github.io/­LokiJSrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Pivotal Software Inc.Actian CorporationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release201520051974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20142009
Current release7.0.0, September 202311.2, May 20222.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++
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 Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
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 infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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 4.2no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesyesView functions in JavaScript
TriggersnoyesyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationIngres ReplicatornoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
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 possibleAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoMVCCyes infoMVCC based
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 controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infousers and table-level permissions

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