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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Graph Engine vs. RethinkDB vs. Sequoiadb

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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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

CCRi and others

Microsoft

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2010

2009

2013

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

range based

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

simple password-based access control

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