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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Pinecone

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Search engineVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storelearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperCCRi and othersIBMMicrosoftPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2014201720152019
Current release5.0.0, May 20242.0V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
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Implementation languageScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionhostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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 indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerActive-active shard replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authentication

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