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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield vs. TinkerGraph

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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 CouchDBEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperCCRi and othersIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Google
Initial release2014201020142009
Current release5.0.0, May 20242.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaErlangJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APITinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
TriggersnoyesUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernoyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenono

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