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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Derby vs. GeoMesa vs. Hazelcast

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

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

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

CCRi and others

Hazelcast

Initial release

2015

1997

2014

2008

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

yes

Replicated Map

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Role-based access control

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