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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GeoSpock vs. HyperSQL vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Realm

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iogeospock.comhsqldb.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlrealm.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iohsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.GeoSpockOracleRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release2015200120112014
Current release2.0, September 20192.7.2, June 202323.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptionalyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoJava, SQLnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnonoyesnoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyes infooff heap cacheyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesyes

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