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

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

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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.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 DataA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.iodb.apache.org/­derbywww.geomesa.orgrealm.iogithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlrealm.io/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Apache Software FoundationCCRi and othersRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20151997201420142016
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20235.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++
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 VMAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaJava Stored Proceduresnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonedepending on storage layernonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layernonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
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 tablesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
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 realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyesno

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