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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kinetica vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kinetica vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.kinetica.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.heavy.aiwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.kinetica.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperCCRi and othersHEAVY.AI, Inc.IBMKineticaSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20142016201720121992
Current release5.0.0, May 20245.10, January 20222.07.1, August 202117, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++ and CUDAC and C++C, C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnononoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerSharding infoRound robinShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replicationActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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