DBMS > GeoMesa vs. GeoSpock vs. Interbase vs. RethinkDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. GeoSpock vs. Interbase vs. RethinkDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

geospock.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

rethinkdb.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

CCRi and others

GeoSpock

Embarcadero

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

1984

2009

2020

Current release

5.0.1, July 2024

2.0, September 2019

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.4.1, August 2020

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

range based

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

MVCC based

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

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