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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. GeoMesa vs. LevelDB vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

www.exasol.com

www.geomesa.org

github.com/google/leveldb

rdf4j.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

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

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Exasol

CCRi and others

Google

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2000

2014

2011

2004

2018

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Java
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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