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DBMS > Galaxybase vs. Google BigQuery vs. LokiJS vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Google BigQuery vs. LokiJS vs. TerarkDB

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
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Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score58.10
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitegalaxybase.comcloud.google.com/­bigquerygithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司GoogleByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2017201020142016
Current releaseNov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeStrong typed schemayesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying datano infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)nono

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