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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Db2 vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

hazelcast.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

CCRi and others

Hazelcast

IBM

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2014

2008

1983

host version

2011

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

5.3.6, November 2023

12.1, October 2016

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

Replicated Map

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

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 or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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