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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Hive vs. Hypertable vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orghive.apache.orgprometheus.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeprometheus.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperCCRi and othersApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookHypertable Inc.quasardb
Initial release20142012200920152009
Current release4.0.5, February 20243.1.3, April 20220.9.8.11, March 20163.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC++GoC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binary
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.nono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
C++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerselectable replication factorselectable replication factor on file system levelyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnonoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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