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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. NSDb vs. YottaDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtablensdb.ioyottadb.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsnsdb.io/­Architectureyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperCCRi and othersGoogleYottaDB, LLC
Initial release2014201520172001
Current release4.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaJava, ScalaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
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)Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernoyes
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)Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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