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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Ignite vs. MonetDB vs. RethinkDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orgignite.apache.orgwww.monetdb.orgrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlapacheignite.readme.io/­docswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCCRi and othersApache Software FoundationMonetDB BVThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2014201520042009
Current release4.0.5, February 2024Apache Ignite 2.6Dec2023 (11.49), December 20232.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++, Java, .NetCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingSharding via remote tablesSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes (replicated cache)none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
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 implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissions

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