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DBMS > BigObject vs. Derby vs. Firebird vs. GeoMesa vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Derby vs. Firebird vs. GeoMesa vs. Realm

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseGeoMesa 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 modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iodb.apache.org/­derbywww.firebirdsql.orgwww.geomesa.orgrealm.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Apache Software FoundationFirebird FoundationCCRi and othersRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release201519972000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20142014
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20235.0.0, January 20245.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaJava Stored ProceduresPSQLnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonedepending on storage layernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesdepending on storage layeryes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes

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