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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 vs. KairosDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 vs. KairosDB vs. Transbase

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa 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/LinuxDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2kairosdb.github.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperCCRi and othersIBMTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20141983 infohost version20131987
Current release5.0.0, May 202412.1, October 20161.2.2, November 2018Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaC and C++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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