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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. Pinecone vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. Pinecone vs. Rockset

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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 managed, cloud-native vector databaseA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.pinecone.iorockset.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlkairosdb.github.iodocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperCCRi and othersPinecone Systems, IncRockset
Initial release2014201320192019
Current release5.0.0, May 20241.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleandynamic typing
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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
PythonGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerSharding infobased on CassandraAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
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 layernono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagesimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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