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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 vs. JSqlDb vs. OpenTenBase vs. Riak KV

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

Technical documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

CCRi and others

IBM

Konrad von Backstrom

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2014

1983

host version

2018

2009

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

12.1, October 2016

0.8, December 2018

2.5, January 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

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