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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. OpenSearch vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

opensearch.org/docs/latest

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

CCRi and others

IBM

Amazon Web Services

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2014

2021

2014

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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