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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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

CCRi and others

Hypertable Inc.

Initial release

2014

2009

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

0.9.8.11, March 2016

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
macOS

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor on file system level

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

MVCC

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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