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DBMS > BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Access vs. Realm vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Access vs. Realm vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#13  Vector DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.geomesa.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessrealm.iowww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.CCRi and othersMicrosoftRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20152014199220142023
Current release4.0.5, February 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20191.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesVector, Numeric and String
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layernonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layernonenone
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 tablesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yesRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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