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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.82
Rank#218  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score23.95
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsnsdb.io
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperCCRi and othersIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Microsoft
Initial release2014200520162017
Current release4.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageScalaCC++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
Java
PHP
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoTransact SQLno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernoneSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesyes

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