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DBMS > BigObject vs. LokiJS vs. searchxml vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. LokiJS vs. searchxml vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transbase

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesIn-memory JavaScript DBMSDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score4.06
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#355  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.timescale.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iotechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.timescale.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.informationpartners gmbhTimescaleTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20152014201520171987
Current release1.02.15.0, May 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++CC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaView functions in JavaScriptyes infoon the application serveruser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblemultiple readers, single writerACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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