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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Score	1.99
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	22.71
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

www.geomesa.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

nsdb.io

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

nsdb.io/Architecture

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

CCRi and others

Microsoft

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2002

2014

2016

2017

2012

Current release

1.1, February 2017

4.0.5, February 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

Java, Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

Java
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

depending on storage layer

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

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