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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. LeanXcale

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. LeanXcale

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparison
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 WhisperDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational 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
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.leanxcale.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iokairosdb.github.io
DeveloperCCRi and othersChris DavisLeanXcale
Initial release2014200620132015
Current release5.0.0, May 20241.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaPythonJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infothrough Apache Derby
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernoneSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layernoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
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 layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenosimple password-based access control

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