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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. gStore vs. Ignite vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

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.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

en.gstore.cn

ignite.apache.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

Developer

CCRi and others

Apache Software Foundation

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

2016

2015

2011

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

1.2, November 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes (replicated cache)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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