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DBMS > BigObject vs. GBase vs. Realm vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GBase vs. Realm vs. SurrealDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.gbase.cnrealm.iosurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iorealm.io/­docssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2015200420142022
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cv1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonRust
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsStandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnoyesyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
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.yesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesyesyes, based on authentication and database rules

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