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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. GeoMesa vs. GeoSpock vs. Graph Engine

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.31
Rank	#159	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#241	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.geomesa.org

geospock.com

www.graphengine.io

Technical documentation

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

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

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CCRi and others

GeoSpock

Microsoft

Initial release

2018

2014

2010

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

5.0.1, July 2024

2.0, September 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java, Javascript

.NET and C

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

hosted

.NET

Data scheme

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

temporal, categorical

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

depending on storage layer

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

depending on storage layer

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Access rights for users can be defined per table

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