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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. HyperSQL vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.89
Rank	#103	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

www.geomesa.org

cloud.google.com/spanner

hsqldb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

CCRi and others

Google

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2014

2017

2001

2015

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

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++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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