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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. GeoSpock vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle vs. RethinkDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  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 scaleFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsWidely used RDBMSDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1236.29
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orggeospock.comwww.kinetica.comwww.oracle.com/­databaserethinkdb.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.kinetica.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­databaserethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCCRi and othersGeoSpockKineticaOracleThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2014201219802009
Current release5.0.0, May 20242.0, September 20197.1, August 202123c, September 20232.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageScalaJava, JavascriptC, C++C and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columnsschema-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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
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 proceduresnonouser defined functionsPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possible
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerAutomatic shardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono infocan be realized in PL/SQLyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID infoisolation level can be parameterizedAtomic 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 layernoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'no
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissions

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