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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. HyperSQL vs. PouchDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

hsqldb.org

pouchdb.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

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

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

CCRi and others

Apache Software Foundation

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2014

2001

2012

1993

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

JavaScript

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica 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

Immediate 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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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