DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Graph Engine vs. OpenQM vs. Sqrrl vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Graph Engine vs. OpenQM vs. Sqrrl vs. ToroDB

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

ToroDB 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 distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

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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	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.graphengine.io

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

sqrrl.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

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

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

CCRi and others

Microsoft

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

8Kdata

Initial release

2014

2010

1993

2012

2016

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

.NET

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

Source-replica replication

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

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

Access rights for users and roles

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