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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. ITTIA vs. JanusGraph vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

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

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

docs.janusgraph.org

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

CCRi and others

ITTIA L.L.C.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

quasardb

Initial release

2014

2007

2017

2009

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

8.7

0.6.3, February 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

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
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Database file passwords

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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