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DBMS > BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. PlanetScale vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. PlanetScale vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  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 DBMSScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogreenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSplanetscale.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSplanetscale.com/­docsdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Pivotal Software Inc.PlanetScaleVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20152005201420202018
Current release7.0.0, September 2023v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoGo
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)Docker
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesView functions in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
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.yesnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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