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DBMS > BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. PieCloudDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. PieCloudDB vs. Trafodion

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 DBMSA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogreenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.openpie.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJStrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Pivotal Software Inc.OpenPieApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2015200520142014
Current release7.0.0, September 20232.1, January 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++, Java
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)hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptJava
PL/SQL
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneyesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACID
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BigObjectGreenplumLokiJSPieCloudDBTrafodion
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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