DBMS > GeoMesa vs. GridDB vs. H2GIS vs. LeanXcale vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. GridDB vs. H2GIS vs. LeanXcale vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

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

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Spatial extension of H2

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

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

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#286	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

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

docs.griddb.net

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

CCRi and others

Toshiba Corporation

CNRS

LeanXcale

Microsoft

Initial release

2014

2013

2015

2016

Current release

5.0.1, July 2024

5.1, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

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

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C
Java
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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 at container level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

based on H2

yes

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