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

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

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  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 CouchDBA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.risingwave.com/­databasetinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperCCRi and othersIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014RisingWave Labs
Initial release2014201020222009
Current release5.0.0, May 20241.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaErlangRustJava
Server operating systemshostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoStandard SQL-types and JSONyes
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 SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptUDFs in Python or Javano
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
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 integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers and Rolesno

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