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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. STSdb

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Search engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orgignite.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlapacheignite.readme.io/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperCCRi and othersApache Software FoundationMicrosoftSTS Soft SC
Initial release2014201520152011
Current release5.0.0, May 2024Apache Ignite 2.6V14.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageScalaC++, Java, .NetC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnono
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nono
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes (replicated cache)yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
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 layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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