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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. GreptimeDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

greptime.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.greptime.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

CCRi and others

Greptime Inc.

Microsoft

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2022

2016

2012

Current release

5.0.1, July 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Rust

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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