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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Spark SQL

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational 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
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperCCRi and othersIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Sybase, SAPApache Software Foundation
Initial release2014201019932014
Current release4.0.5, February 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageScalaErlangScala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
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 SQLnonoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
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 lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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