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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. JaguarDB

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

CCRi and others

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

IBM

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2010

2014

2015

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

hosted

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source 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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

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