DBMS > GeoMesa vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

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

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

CCRi and others

Microsoft

SAP

formerly Sybase

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2014

2013

1989

1992

2020

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

2.7.6, April 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

17, July 2015

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

in enterprise version only

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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