DBMS > BigObject vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. GBase vs. GeoMesa vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. GBase vs. GeoMesa vs. Realm

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#274	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Website

bigobject.io

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

www.gbase.cn

www.geomesa.org

realm.io

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

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

realm.io/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Cloudflare

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

CCRi and others

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2015

2018

2004

2014

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

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)

hosted

Linux

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

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

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

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

yes

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