DBMS > BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J

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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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

RDF store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
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Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

bigobject.io

www.geomesa.org

google.github.io/lovefield

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

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

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

CCRi and others

Google

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2015

2014

2004

Current release

5.0.1, July 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

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)

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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