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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.geomesa.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

CCRi and others

Initial release

2015

2014

2013

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

simple password-based access control

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