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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. gStore vs. LokiJS vs. YTsaurus

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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 native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

bigobject.io

greenplum.org

en.gstore.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.greenplum.org

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Pivotal Software Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2015

2005

2016

2014

2023

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

1.2, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

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)

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

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

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

JavaScript

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

yes

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

yes

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 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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Access Control Lists

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