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DBMS > BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedSpatial DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.17
Rank#333  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#218  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#320  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.CCRi and othersIBM
Initial release201520142017
Current release4.0.5, February 20242.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtime
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyes
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layerActive-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesNo - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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