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DBMS > BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. IRONdb vs. JSqlDb vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. IRONdb vs. JSqlDb vs. Riak KV

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.geomesa.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/jsqldb.org (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.CCRi and othersCirconus LLC.Konrad von BackstromOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20152014201720182009
Current release5.0.0, May 2024V0.10.20, January 20180.8, December 20183.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaC and C++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnono
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 indexesyesyesnonorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyes, in Luafunctions in JavaScriptErlang
Triggersnonononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layerconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoyes, using Riak Security

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