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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfluxDB vs. LevelDB vs. openGauss

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­google/­leveldbgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
DeveloperCCRi and othersIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014GoogleHuawei and openGauss community
Initial release20142010201320112019
Current release5.0.0, May 20242.7.6, April 20241.23, February 20213.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageScalaErlangGoC++C, C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data and Stringsnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenoANSI SQL 2011
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernoyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple rights management via user accountsnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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GeoMesaIBM CloudantInfluxDBLevelDBopenGauss
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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