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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlkairosdb.github.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperCCRi and othersAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2019201420132008
Current release5.0.0, May 20241.2.2, November 20185.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasdepending on storage layerselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagesimple password-based access controlno

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