DBMS > BigObject vs. EsgynDB vs. GeoMesa vs. GreptimeDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. EsgynDB vs. GeoMesa vs. GreptimeDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

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

docs.greptime.com

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Esgyn

CCRi and others

Greptime Inc.

Initial release

2015

2014

2022

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Scala

Rust

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

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Java Stored Procedures

Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Simple rights management via user accounts

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