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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A widely adopted in-memory data gridCloud-based data warehousing serviceDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orghazelcast.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouserethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCCRi and othersHazelcastIBMThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer Plaha
Initial release20142008201420092018
Current release4.0.5, February 20245.3.6, November 20232.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC++Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryno
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesPL/SQL, SQL PLno
Triggersnoyes infoEventsyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingShardingSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes infoReplicated MapyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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