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

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

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  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.In-memory JavaScript DBMSLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument storeObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series 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
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#49  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogreenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
prometheus.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.objectbox.ioprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Pivotal Software Inc.ObjectBox Limited
Initial release20152005201420172015
Current release7.0.0, September 20234.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes, plus "flex" map-like typesNumeric data only
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 4.2nonono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIProprietary native APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptC
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesno
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