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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. GeoSpock vs. HarperDB vs. Interbase vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. GeoSpock vs. HarperDB vs. Interbase vs. RethinkDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  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 scaleUltra-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.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orggeospock.comwww.harperdb.iowww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaserethinkdb.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaserethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCCRi and othersGeoSpockHarperDBEmbarcaderoThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2014201719842009
Current release5.0.0, May 20242.0, September 20193.1, August 2021InterBase 2020, December 20192.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaJava, JavascriptNode.jsCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesdynamic schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON data typesyesyes 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.nononono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like data manipulation statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.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
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
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 proceduresnonoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
TriggersnononoyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerAutomatic shardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternoneSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissions

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