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

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 H2Spatial extension of SQLiteA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlkairosdb.github.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperCCRi and othersAlessandro FurieriVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2014201320082011
Current release5.0.0, May 20241.2.2, November 20185.0.0, August 20207.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lessAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
.Net
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
TriggersnonoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
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
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
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 layernoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagesimple password-based access controlnoBased on Windows Authentication

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