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DBMS > BigObject vs. Drizzle vs. GeoMesa vs. Qdrant vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Drizzle vs. GeoMesa vs. Qdrant vs. Realm

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA 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 DBMSSpatial DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
realm.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlqdrant.tech/­documentationrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Drizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCCRi and othersQdrantRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20152008201420212014
Current release7.2.4, September 20124.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaRust
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingdepending on storage layerShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
depending on storage layerCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
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.yesdepending on storage layeryesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageKey-based authenticationyes

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