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DBMS > EXASOL vs. GeoMesa vs. OpenQM vs. OrientDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. GeoMesa vs. OpenQM vs. OrientDB vs. SwayDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value store
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmorientdb.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperExasolCCRi and othersRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSimer Plaha
Initial release20002014199320102018
Current release5.0.0, May 20243.4-123.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaScala
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language, no joinsno
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesJava, Javascriptno
TriggersyesnoyesHooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layeryesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryesMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyesnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableno

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