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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. GeoSpock vs. RethinkDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. GeoSpock vs. RethinkDB vs. Vitess

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionGeoMesa 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.Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orggeospock.comrethinkdb.comvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperCCRi and othersGeoSpockThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release201420092013
Current release5.0.0, May 20242.0, September 20192.4.1, August 202015.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaJava, JavascriptC++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC 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
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersnonoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerAutomatic shardingSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic single-document operationsACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes 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 infono user groups or roles

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