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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Greenplum vs. Lovefield vs. OushuDB vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

greenplum.org

google.github.io/lovefield

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.greenplum.org

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.oushu.com/documentation

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

CCRi and others

Pivotal Software Inc.

Google

Oushu

Initial release

2014

2005

2014

2017

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

7.0.0, September 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript

C
C++

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

Role-based access control

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