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DBMS > EXASOL vs. GeoMesa vs. MaxDB vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. GeoMesa vs. MaxDB vs. PostGIS

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-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.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.geomesa.orgmaxdb.sap.compostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperExasolCCRi and othersSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release2000201419842005
Current release5.0.0, May 20247.9.10.12, February 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layernoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layernono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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