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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Spark SQL vs. Splice Machine vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Spark SQL vs. Splice Machine vs. Transbase

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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 CouchDBSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantspark.apache.org/­sqlsplicemachine.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-workswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperCCRi and othersIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationSplice MachineTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20142010201420141987
Current release5.0.0, May 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.1, March 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaErlangScalaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes infoJavayes
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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