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

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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.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	5.28
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

greenplum.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

trino.io

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.greenplum.org

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.objectbox.io

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Pivotal Software Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2015

2005

2014

2017

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

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

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

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Proprietary native API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

depending on connected data-source

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

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

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

yes

SQL standard access control

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