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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. GigaSpaces vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
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Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#197	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#7	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.07
Rank	#86	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#11	Key-value stores
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.gigaspaces.com

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

CCRi and others

Gigaspaces Technologies

Oracle

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2000

2011

2000

Current release

5.0.1, July 2024

15.5, September 2020

24.1, May 2024

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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