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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Greenplum vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Greenplum vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. MonetDB

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionAnalytic 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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.15
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cngreenplum.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperEsgynPivotal Software Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MonetDB BV
Initial release20152005201020142004
Current release7.0.0, September 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, JavaErlangJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnoneSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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