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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hive vs. InfluxDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorehive.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorecwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperCCRi and othersGoogleApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release2014201720122013
Current release5.0.0, May 20243.1.3, April 20222.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Strings
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesUsing Cloud Dataflowyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes infoDepending on used storage engine
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. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Access rights for users, groups and rolessimple rights management via user accounts
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GeoMesaGoogle Cloud FirestoreHiveInfluxDB
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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