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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. NCache

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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.

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.23
Rank	#345	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#225	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.40
Rank	#188	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Website

bigobject.io

www.geomesa.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

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

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

CCRi and others

Alachisoft

Initial release

2015

2014

2005

Current release

4.0.2, July 2023

5.3, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C#, .NET, .NET Core, 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
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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 syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

yes, with selectable consistency level

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
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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