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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Wide column store

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	114.40
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.75
Rank	#204	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#356	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.geomesa.org

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

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

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

CCRi and others

Initial release

2008

2014

2017

Current release

4.0.4, May 2022

3.2.0, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

depending on storage layer

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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Market metrics

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