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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. Splunk vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. Splunk vs. Transbase

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperAnalytics Platform for Big DataA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.splunk.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperCCRi and othersGoogleChris DavisSplunk Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20142015200620031987
Current release5.0.0, May 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaPythonC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlyyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)noneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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