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DBMS > BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. ObjectBox

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  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.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandIn-memory JavaScript DBMSLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogreenplum.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.greenplum.orgdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Pivotal Software Inc.EmbarcaderoObjectBox Limited
Initial release20152005198420142017
Current release7.0.0, September 2023InterBase 2020, December 20194.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes, plus "flex" map-like types
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 infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIProprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationInterbase Change ViewsnoneData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
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.yesnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes
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