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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. GreptimeDB vs. Pinecone vs. TigerGraph

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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 managed, cloud-native vector database

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

Primary database model

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Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#95	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

docs.greptime.com

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

CCRi and others

Greptime Inc.

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Initial release

2014

2022

2019

2017

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

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

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

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

Role-based access control

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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