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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Realm

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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.

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Spatial DBMS

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#253	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

bigobject.io

www.geomesa.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

realm.io

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

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

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

realm.io/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

CCRi and others

Percona

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2015

2014

2015

2014

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

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

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

JavaScript

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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