DBMS > GeoMesa vs. HyperSQL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Vertica vs. WakandaDB

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

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

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

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

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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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	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

hsqldb.org

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

www.vertica.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

vertica.com/documentation

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

CCRi and others

Sybase, SAP

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2001

1993

2005

2012

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

12.0.3, January 2023

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

Limited community edition free

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Bi-directional Spark 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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

yes

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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