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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Graph Engine vs. RDF4J vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Graph Engine vs. RDF4J vs. Solr

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  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 engineRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
RDF storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.graphengine.iordf4j.orgsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualrdf4j.org/­documentationsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperCCRi and othersMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release2014201020042006
Current release4.0.5, February 20249.5.0, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScala.NET and CJavaJava
Server operating systems.NETLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesJava plugins
Triggersnonoyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerhorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 storageyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoyes

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