DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Hazelcast vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Hazelcast vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SpatiaLite

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

hazelcast.com

www.mysql.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

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

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

CCRi and others

Hazelcast

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Percona

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2014

2008

1995

2015

2008

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

5.3.6, November 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

proprietary syntax

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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 or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

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