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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. GeoMesa vs. OrigoDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of SQLite

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.geomesa.org

origodb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

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

origodb.com/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CCRi and others

Robert Friberg et al

Alessandro Furieri

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1997

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

2008

2001

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

server-less

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

yes

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Role based authorization

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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