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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Hypertable vs. MaxDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

maxdb.sap.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

CCRi and others

Hypertable Inc.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2009

1984

2018

Current release

5.0.1, July 2024

0.9.8.11, March 2016

7.9.10.12, February 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

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

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 journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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