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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Lovefield vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Lovefield vs. Splunk

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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 comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  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 casesEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#315  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#306  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score93.02
Rank#13  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.heavy.aiwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperCCRi and othersHEAVY.AI, Inc.IBMGoogleSplunk Inc.
Initial release20142016201720142003
Current release5.0.1, July 20245.10, January 20222.02.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++ and CUDAC and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
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 query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
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
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnoyes
TriggersnononoUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerSharding infoRound robinShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replicationActive-active shard replicationnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
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 storageyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesyesyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles

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