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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Hazelcast vs. PostGIS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Hazelcast vs. PostGIS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerarkDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A widely adopted in-memory data gridSpatial extension of PostgreSQLRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orghazelcast.compostgis.netwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docspostgis.net/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherebytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperCCRi and othersHazelcastSAP infoformerly SybaseByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20142008200519922016
Current release4.0.5, February 20245.3.6, November 20233.4.2, February 202417, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaCC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 strategyyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesuser defined functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersnoyes infoEventsyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes infoReplicated Mapyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 layeryesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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