DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

www.geomesa.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

CCRi and others

IBM

SAP

formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2015

2014

1992

2000

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

17, July 2015

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

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

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

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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