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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Memgraph vs. Newts vs. Vertica

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  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 CouchDBAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jTime Series DBMS based on CassandraCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score10.06
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmemgraph.comopennms.github.io/­newtswww.vertica.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmemgraph.com/­docsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikivertica.com/­documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperCCRi and othersIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Memgraph LtdOpenNMS GroupOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release20142010201720142005
Current release5.0.0, May 202412.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageScalaErlangC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP REST
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersnoyesnoyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infowith snapshot isolationnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers, roles and permissionsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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GeoMesaIBM CloudantMemgraphNewtsVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Deploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Fast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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