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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Greenplum vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. TiDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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.

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	4.66
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

greenplum.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

pingcap.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.greenplum.org

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

CCRi and others

Pivotal Software Inc.

Percona

PingCAP, Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2014

2005

2015

2016

2009

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

7.0.0, September 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

8.0.0, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

TiDB Cloud: Fully-managed TiDB Service. Bring everything great about TiDB to the cloud.

Implementation language

Scala

C++

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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