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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. HyperSQL vs. Infobright vs. JaguarDB

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Name

Description

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

hsqldb.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

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

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

CCRi and others

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2001

2005

2015

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

rights management via user accounts

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