DBMS > GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Kingbase vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Kingbase vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.kingbase.com.cn

spark.apache.org/sql

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

CCRi and others

IBM

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

1999

2014

1987

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

V8.0, August 2021

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C and Java

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

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