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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Graphite vs. H2GIS vs. LeanXcale vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Graphite vs. H2GIS vs. LeanXcale vs. Sqrrl

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed 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 WhisperSpatial extension of H2A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.h2gis.orgwww.leanxcale.comsqrrl.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.h2gis.org/­docs/­home
DeveloperCCRi and othersChris DavisCNRSLeanXcaleAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release20142006201320152012
Current release5.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaPythonJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes infothrough Apache Derbyno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaC
Java
Scala
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infobased on H2no
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernonenoneSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernoneyes infobased on H2selectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layernoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 infobased on H2Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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