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DBMS > Datomic vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlkairosdb.github.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperCognitectCCRi and othersAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2012201420132008
Current release1.0.6735, June 20235.0.0, May 20241.2.2, November 20185.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnonono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersdepending on storage layerSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersdepending on storage layerselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentdepending on storage layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagesimple password-based access controlno

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