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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. GeoMesa vs. JanusGraph vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#134	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	4.06
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

docs.janusgraph.org

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Esgyn

CCRi and others

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Timescale

Initial release

2015

2014

2017

Current release

5.0.1, July 2024

1.0.0, October 2023

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Clojure
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

depending on storage layer

yes

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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