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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Riak KV vs. searchxml vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Riak KV vs. searchxml vs. XTDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa 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.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Document store
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orgcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCCRi and othersGoogleOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologiesinformationpartners gmbhJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20142017200920152019
Current release4.0.5, February 20243.2.0, December 20221.01.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaErlangC++Clojure
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
WindowsAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nonolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlangyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.selectable replication factoryes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityno infolinks between data sets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoStrict serializable isolationnomultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernono
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)yes, using Riak SecurityDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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