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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. OrigoDB vs. Quasardb

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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 hardwareFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.kinetica.comorigodb.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.heavy.aidocs.kinetica.comorigodb.com/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperCCRi and othersHEAVY.AI, Inc.KineticaRobert Friberg et alquasardb
Initial release2014201620122009 infounder the name LiveDB2009
Current release5.0.0, May 20245.10, January 20227.1, August 20213.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++ and CUDAC, C++C#C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes infointeger and binary
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.nononono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerSharding infoRound robinShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesdepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelRole based authorizationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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