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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Realm

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA 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 imposedSpatial DBMSWide column storeDocument store
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.combigobject.iowww.geomesa.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesrealm.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.bigobject.iowww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.CCRi and othersMicrosoftRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20162015201420122014
Current release4.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonScala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnononoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonedepending on storage layerSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonedepending on storage layeryes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonooptimistic lockingACID
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 layernoyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesyes

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