DBMS > Axibase vs. GeoMesa vs. SpaceTime vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. GeoMesa vs. SpaceTime vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.geomesa.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

spark.apache.org/sql

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

CCRi and others

Mireo

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2013

2014

2020

2014

1987

Current release

15585

5.0.0, May 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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 query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Fixed-grid hypercubes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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