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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. H2 vs. Hazelcast vs. HyperSQL

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

CCRi and others

Thomas Mueller

Hazelcast

Initial release

2014

2005

2008

2001

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

2.2.220, July 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

based on BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

Replicated Map

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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