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DBMS > BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. LeanXcale vs. Postgres-XL vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. LeanXcale vs. Postgres-XL vs. TempoIQ

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed 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 highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.geomesa.orgwww.leanxcale.comwww.postgres-xl.orgtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.CCRi and othersLeanXcaleTempoIQ
Initial release2015201420152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2012
Current release4.0.5, February 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageScalaC
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infothrough Apache Derbyyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple authentication-based access control

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