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DBMS > BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. GeoMesa vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. GeoMesa vs. Splunk

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesIn-memory caching systemGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Analytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeSpatial DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitebigobject.iocachelot.iowww.geomesa.orgwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.CCRi and othersSplunk Inc.
Initial release2015201520142003
Current release4.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolHTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonedepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonedepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenonedepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnodepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users and roles

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