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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. InfinityDB vs. IRONdb vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. InfinityDB vs. IRONdb vs. VelocityDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgboilerbay.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/velocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperCCRi and othersBoiler Bay Inc.Circonus LLC.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release2014200220172011
Current release5.0.0, May 20244.0V0.10.20, January 20187.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC and C++C#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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 indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP API.Net
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in Luano
TriggersnononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACID
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 layernonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenonoBased on Windows Authentication

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