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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Infobright vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Tkrzw vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

GeoMesa 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 frontend

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

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

dbmx.net/tkrzw

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

CCRi and others

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Mikio Hirabayashi

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2005

1992

2020

2019

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

17, July 2015

0.9.3, August 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

yes, each node contains all data

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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