DBMS > Badger vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

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

Spatial extension of H2

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.geomesa.org

www.h2gis.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

DGraph Labs

CCRi and others

CNRS

Spotify

Initial release

2017

2014

2013

2014

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

yes

based on H2

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

based on H2

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