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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. Hypertable vs. IRONdb vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. Hypertable vs. IRONdb vs. Sphinx

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.IRONdb 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.Spatial extension of H2An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.h2gis.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCCRi and othersCNRSHypertable Inc.Circonus LLC.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20142013200920172001
Current release4.0.5, February 20240.9.8.11, March 2016V0.10.20, January 20183.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2noyes, in Luano
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes infobased on H2selectable replication factor on file system levelconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infobased on H2nonono

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