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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. Blazegraph vs. GeoMesa vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. Blazegraph vs. GeoMesa vs. Realm

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.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 modelDocument storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMSDocument store
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.combigobject.ioblazegraph.comwww.geomesa.orgrealm.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.bigobject.iowiki.blazegraph.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.BlazegraphCCRi and othersRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20162015200620142014
Current release2.1.5, March 20195.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaScala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSPARQL is used as query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnononoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingdepending on storage layernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyesdepending on storage layernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationdepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes infoRelationships in Graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes

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