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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. GeoMesa

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score3.06
Rank#116  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.15
Rank#216  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orgwww.geomesa.org
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperCCRi and others
Initial release20182014
Current release0.2, August 20204.0.1, April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
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Implementation languageC++Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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