DBMS > BigObject vs. DolphinDB vs. GeoMesa

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. DolphinDB vs. GeoMesa

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	4.23
Rank	#82	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.dolphindb.com

www.geomesa.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

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

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

DolphinDB, Inc

CCRi and others

Initial release

2015

2018

2014

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

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)

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

depending on storage layer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

depending on storage layer

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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