DBMS > GeoMesa vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Qdrant vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Qdrant vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

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

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#145	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.intersystems.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

qdrant.tech/documentation

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

CCRi and others

InterSystems

Microsoft

Qdrant

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

1997

2016

2021

2012

Current release

5.0.1, July 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

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

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Rust

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

yes

Collection-level 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, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

Key-based authentication

yes

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