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DBMS > FatDB vs. GeoMesa vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. GeoMesa vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA .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.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.harperdb.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.harperdb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperFatCloudCCRi and othersHarperDBSpotify
Initial release2012201420172014
Current release4.0.5, February 20243.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC#ScalaNode.jsJava
Server operating systemsWindowsLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesdynamic schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON data typesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernoSQL-like data manipulation statementsno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1no
Triggersyes infovia applicationsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factordepending on storage layeryes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
depending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of specific operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users and roles

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