DBMS > GeoMesa vs. GigaSpaces vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. GigaSpaces vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx

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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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.gigaspaces.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

CCRi and others

Gigaspaces Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2014

2000

2013

1992

2001

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

15.5, September 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

17, July 2015

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

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

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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