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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Graphite vs. GridDB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Graphite vs. GridDB vs. ToroDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#123  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgriddb.netgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.griddb.net
DeveloperCCRi and othersChris DavisToshiba Corporation8Kdata
Initial release2014200620132016
Current release5.0.1, July 20245.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaPythonC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
LinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layernoneImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID at container levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles

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