DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Google BigQuery vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Google BigQuery vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase vs. Ultipa

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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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

spark.apache.org/sql

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

CCRi and others

Google

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

Ultipa

Initial release

2014

2010

2014

1987

2019

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Source-replica replication

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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