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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Google BigQuery vs. InfluxDB vs. LevelDB vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/google/leveldb

siridb.com

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

docs.siridb.com

Developer

CCRi and others

Google

Cesbit

Initial release

2014

2010

2013

2011

2017

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

2.7.6, April 2024

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

simple rights management via user accounts

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