DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Oracle vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Oracle vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

GeoMesa 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.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Widely used RDBMS

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.58
Rank	#92	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#374	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	1234.27
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#358	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.hawkular.org

www.oracle.com/database

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

CCRi and others

Google

Community supported by Red Hat

Oracle

SenX

Initial release

2014

2015

2014

1980

2015

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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