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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. OpenSearch vs. SpatiaLite

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score16.03
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlkairosdb.github.ioopensearch.org/­docs/­latestwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperCCRi and othersAmazon Web ServicesAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2014201320212008
Current release5.0.0, May 20241.2.2, November 20182.5.0, January 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnonoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagesimple password-based access controlno
More information provided by the system vendor
GeoMesaKairosDBOpenSearchSpatiaLite
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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