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DBMS > BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. Greenplum vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. Greenplum vs. OpenTSDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.geomesa.orggreenplum.orgopentsdb.net
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.greenplum.orgopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.CCRi and othersPivotal Software Inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2015201420052011
Current release5.0.0, May 20247.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nonoyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
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.yesdepending on storage layernono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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