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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. GreptimeDB vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

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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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

RDF store

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

Technical documentation

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

docs.greptime.com

origodb.com/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

CCRi and others

Greptime Inc.

Robert Friberg et al

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2014

2022

2009

under the name LiveDB

2004

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.Net

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Simple rights management via user accounts

Role based authorization

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