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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Ingres vs. NSDb vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Well established RDBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

nsdb.io

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.actian.com/ingres

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

CCRi and others

Actian Corporation

Rocket Software

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2017

1985

2012

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

11.2, May 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java, Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

optional

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Scala

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Ingres Replicator

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

yes

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