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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HugeGraph vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HugeGraph vs. RethinkDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orggeospock.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
rethinkdb.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorehugegraph.apache.org/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCCRi and othersGeoSpockGoogleBaiduThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2014201720182009
Current release4.0.5, February 20242.0, September 20190.92.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaJava, JavascriptJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
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 proceduresnonoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobs
Triggersnonoyes, with Cloud FunctionsnoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerAutomatic shardingShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoUsing Cloud Dataflowvia hugegraph-sparkyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
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 layernoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Users, roles and permissionsyes infousers and table-level permissions

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