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DBMS > BigObject vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. GeoMesa vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. GeoMesa vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Realm

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Oracles in-memory data grid solutionA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedWide column storeSpatial DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score5.80
Rank#60  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.geomesa.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencerealm.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.datastax.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencerealm.io/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.DataStaxCCRi and othersOracleRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20152011201420072014
Current release6.8, April 20204.0.5, February 202414.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanononono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoLive Eventsyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"depending on storage layerShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingdepending on storage layeryes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
depending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesdepending on storage layeryesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationyes
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BigObjectDatastax EnterpriseGeoMesaOracle CoherenceRealm
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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