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DBMS > DuckDB vs. GeoMesa vs. GridGain

System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. GeoMesa vs. GridGain

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  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.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score6.35
Rank#54  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#159  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#4  Object oriented DBMS
#70  Relational DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.gridgain.com
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.html
DeveloperCCRi and othersGridGain Systems, Inc.
Initial release201820142007
Current release1.0.0, June 20245.0.1, July 2024GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial, open source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ScalaJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layeryes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

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