DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. GeoMesa vs. OpenSearch vs. Sadas Engine vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. GeoMesa vs. OpenSearch vs. Sadas Engine vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Website

cachelot.io

www.geomesa.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sadasengine.com

typedb.com

Technical documentation

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

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

typedb.com/docs

Developer

CCRi and others

Amazon Web Services

SADAS s.r.l.

Vaticle

Initial release

2015

2014

2021

2006

2016

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

8.0

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

yes

none

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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Competitive advantages

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Licensing and pricing models

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