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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

CCRi and others

Circonus LLC.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2017

1984

2010

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

V0.10.20, January 2018

7.4.1.1, 2021

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

HP Open VMS

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication
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 per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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