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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. GridGain vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. GridGain vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. VelocityDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteSpatial extension of PostgreSQLLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.gridgain.compostgis.netwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperCCRi and othersGridGain Systems, Inc.Sybase, SAPVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20142007200519932011
Current release5.0.0, May 2024GridGain 8.5.13.4.2, February 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaJava, C++, .NetCC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Delphi
Perl
PHP
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes (replicated cache)yes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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