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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. Quasardb vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

doc.quasar.ai/master

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

CCRi and others

CNRS

quasardb

Splice Machine

Initial release

2014

2013

2009

2014

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

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

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

based on H2

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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