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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. HyperSQL vs. Quasardb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. WakandaDB

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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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

hsqldb.org

quasar.ai

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

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

doc.quasar.ai/master

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

CCRi and others

quasardb

Sybase, SAP

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2001

2009

1993

2012

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

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 LevelDB

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

Transient mode

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

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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