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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. JSqlDb vs. Splunk

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.69
Rank	#101	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.geomesa.org

cloud.google.com/spanner

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

CCRi and others

Google

Konrad von Backstrom

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2014

2017

2018

2003

Current release

5.0.1, July 2024

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

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

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

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 REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

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)

Access rights for users and roles

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