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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. TerminusDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualgraphite.readthedocs.ioterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCCRi and othersMicrosoftChris DavisDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2014201020062018
Current release5.0.0, May 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScala.NET and CPythonProlog, Rust
Server operating systems.NETLinux
Unix
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerhorizontal partitioningnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layernone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoRole-based access control

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