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DBMS > BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. GeoMesa vs. Realm vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. GeoMesa vs. Realm vs. Rockset

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.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 scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.exasol.comwww.geomesa.orgrealm.iorockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlrealm.io/­docsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.ExasolCCRi and othersRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Rockset
Initial release20152000201420142019
Current release4.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesdynamic typing
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.nonononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingdepending on storage layernoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layernoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual 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 realm
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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