DBMS > BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. LokiJS vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. LokiJS vs. TerminusDB

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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.

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#259	Overall
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

greenplum.org

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.greenplum.org

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Pivotal Software Inc.

Kyligence, Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2005

2016

2014

2018

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

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

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

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