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DBMS > BigObject vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. Graphite vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. Graphite vs. Realm

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA 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 imposedDocument storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webrealm.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iofirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iorealm.io/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Google infoacquired by Google 2014CCRi and othersChris DavisRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20152012201420062014
Current release4.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaPython
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedLinux
Unix
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnononono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLualimited functionality with using 'rules'nonono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layernonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layernonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
depending on storage layernoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes infolocking
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 layeryes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoyes

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