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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. KairosDB vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

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

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

kairosdb.github.io

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

Developer

CCRi and others

IBM

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2014

2017

2013

2015

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

2.0

1.2.2, November 2018

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

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

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
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

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

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Active-active shard replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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