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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Realm

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  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.A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score6.35
Rank#54  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score6.74
Rank#51  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websiteduckdb.orgwww.geomesa.orgrealm.io
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperCCRi and othersRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release201820142014
Current release1.0.0, June 20245.0.1, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Scala
Server operating systemsserver-lessAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
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
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnonoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
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)yes
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 infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes

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