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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Graphite vs. SiteWhere vs. ToroDB

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

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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 WhisperM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iositewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperCCRi and othersChris DavisSiteWhere8Kdata
Initial release2014200620102016
Current release5.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageScalaPythonJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyespredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes 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 indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layernoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
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 layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and roles

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