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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. jBASE vs. Newts

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Name

Description

GeoMesa 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 engine

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.graphengine.io

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

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

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.heavy.ai

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

CCRi and others

Microsoft

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2014

2010

2016

1991

2014

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

5.10, January 2022

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

.NET and C

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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