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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. GigaSpaces vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. SWC-DB

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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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.gigaspaces.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

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

Technical documentation

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

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

origodb.com/docs

Developer

CCRi and others

Gigaspaces Technologies

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2000

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2020

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

15.5, September 2020

4.4, October 2021

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

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

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Role-based access control

Role based authorization

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