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DBMS > Datastax Enterprise vs. GeoMesa vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. GeoMesa vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenTSDB

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NameDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelWide column storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
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Score4.91
Rank#63  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score0.75
Rank#216  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.11
Rank#115  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score91.31
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.51
Rank#141  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.geomesa.orgmaxdb.sap.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessopentsdb.net
Technical documentationdocs.datastax.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperDataStaxCCRi and othersSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Microsoftcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20112014198419922011
Current release6.8, April 20205.0.1, July 20247.9.10.12, February 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLnoyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersyesnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"depending on storage layernonenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
depending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layernono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no
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Datastax EnterpriseGeoMesaMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DMicrosoft AccessOpenTSDB
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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