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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. RDFox vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. RDFox vs. Titan

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Spatial extension of H2High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#305  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#15  RDF stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.h2gis.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperCCRi and othersCNRSOxford Semantic TechnologiesAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2014201320172012
Current release5.0.1, July 20246.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesJavaC
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2yes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes infobased on H2replication via a shared file systemyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infobased on H2Roles, resources, and access typesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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