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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. GridGain vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. RRDtool

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.gridgain.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperCCRi and othersGridGain Systems, Inc.InterSystemsTobias Oetiker
Initial release2014200720181999
Current release4.0.5, February 2024GridGain 8.5.12023.3, June 20231.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaJava, C++, .NetC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data only
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesyesno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesno
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesno
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyesno
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