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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Realm vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

realm.io

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

realm.io/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Oracle

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2015

2011

2014

2008

Current release

23.3, December 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

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
Solaris SPARC/x86

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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