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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. Hive vs. Realm

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.bigobject.io

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

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

realm.io/docs

Developer

DGraph Labs

BigObject, Inc.

CCRi and others

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2017

2015

2014

2012

2014

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

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

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

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