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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. Memgraph vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

memgraph.com/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Social network pages

Developer

CCRi and others

CNRS

Memgraph Ltd

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2013

2017

2018

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

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

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Journaling Streams

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

in-memory journaling

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

yes

based on H2

Users, roles and permissions

Role-based access control

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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