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

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

rocksdb.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

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

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

CCRi and others

Facebook, Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2014

2013

2008

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

1.2.2, November 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

simple password-based access control

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