DBMS > FatDB vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

Spatial extension of H2

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.h2gis.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

Technical documentation

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.intersystems.com

Developer

FatCloud

CCRi and others

CNRS

InterSystems

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2014

2013

1997

2012

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

depending on storage layer

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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