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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Heroic vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SpatiaLite

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.lmdb.tech/­docdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperCCRi and othersSpotifySymasMicrosoftAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20142014201120162008
Current release4.0.5, February 20240.9.32, January 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageScalaJavaCC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedserver-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoTransact SQLno
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryesnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
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 layernoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoyesno

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