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DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. GeoMesa vs. Realm vs. RethinkDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. GeoMesa vs. Realm vs. RethinkDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitecachelot.iowww.geomesa.orgrealm.iorethinkdb.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlrealm.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCCRi and othersRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20152014201420092018
Current release5.0.0, May 20242.4.1, August 202011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes
Triggersnonoyes infoChange ListenersClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layernoneSharding inforange basedGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layernoneSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layeryes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyesyes infousers and table-level permissionsRole-based access control

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