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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Infobright vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Infobright vs. QuestDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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 frontendA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#212  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#204  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score3.00
Rank#84  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbquestdb.io
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperCCRi and othersIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.QuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release201420052014
Current release5.0.1, July 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 2016Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageScalaCJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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