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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAnalytic 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 relational database management system that stores data in columnsLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgreenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.orgwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.MonetDB BVSybase, SAP
Initial release20162005201420041993
Current release7.0.0, September 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Ryes
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes 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.noyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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