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DBMS > BigObject vs. EsgynDB vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. EsgynDB vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.esgyn.cnwww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.EsgynCCRi and othersIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2015201520142010
Current release5.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, JavaScalaErlang
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaJava Stored ProceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingdepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication between multi datacentersdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnodepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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