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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Access vs. SQLite

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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

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

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

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.graphengine.io

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

CCRi and others

Microsoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2010

1992

2000

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

.NET

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

but no files for transaction logging

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

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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