DBMS > GeoMesa vs. HarperDB vs. NSDb vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. HarperDB vs. NSDb vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

docs.harperdb.io/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

CCRi and others

HarperDB

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2017

2014

2012

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

3.1, August 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Node.js

Java, Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Java
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

Using Apache Lucene

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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