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

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

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

High-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 model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.77
Rank	#222	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

wiki.blazegraph.com

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

realm.io/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Blazegraph

CCRi and others

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2015

2006

2014

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

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
OS X
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

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

SPARQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

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

yes

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

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

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