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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. BigObject vs. Galaxybase vs. GeoMesa vs. Realm

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Name

Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.bigobject.io

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

realm.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

BigObject, Inc.

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

CCRi and others

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2015

2017

2014

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

Nov 20, November 2021

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined procedures and functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

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