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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. NSDb

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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.

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

cloud.google.com/bigtable

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

CCRi and others

Google

Kyligence, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2015

2016

2017

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

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

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

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