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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. JanusGraph vs. MaxDB vs. Newts

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Name

Description

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

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

janusgraph.org

maxdb.sap.com

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

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

docs.janusgraph.org

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

CCRi and others

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2014

2017

1984

2014

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

0.6.3, February 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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