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DBMS > GBase vs. GeoMesa vs. GeoSpock vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. GeoMesa vs. GeoSpock vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.geomesa.orggeospock.comrethinkdb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.CCRi and othersGeoSpockThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SiteWhere
Initial release2004201420092010
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.0.0, May 20242.0, September 20192.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonScalaJava, JavascriptC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
TriggersyesnonoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningdepending on storage layerAutomatic shardingSharding inforange basedSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.depending on storage layernonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyes infousers and table-level permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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