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System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	7.71
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	4.15
Rank	#70	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#8	Search engines

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

greenplum.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.progress.com/marklogic

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

MarkLogic Corp.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2005

2014

2001

2018

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

11.0, December 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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 journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Role-based access control

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