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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. GeoMesa vs. searchxml

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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.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.geomesa.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

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

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

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CCRi and others

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1997

2014

2015

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Java

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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