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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.ehcache.org/documentation

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

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

CCRi and others

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2015

2009

2014

2011

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

4.0.5, February 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

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)

All OS with a Java VM

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

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

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

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

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Based on Windows Authentication

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