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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. GeoMesa vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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Name

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.jaguardb.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

Technical documentation

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

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

FatCloud

CCRi and others

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2014

2015

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

rights management via user accounts

yes

using Azure authentication

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