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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. TDengine

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  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 H2Time Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.22
Rank#211  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#225  Overall
#17  Time Series DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#122  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlkairosdb.github.iodocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperCCRi and othersTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release201420132019
Current release4.0.1, April 20231.2.2, November 20183.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
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 methodsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagesimple password-based access controlyes
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GeoMesaKairosDBTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is an open-source, cloud-native time-series database (TSDB) optimized for...
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Competitive advantagesHigh performance: TDengine is the only time-series database that solves the high-cardinality...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IoT) Industrial Internet (IIoT) Connected Cars DevOps Energy...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 20,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine Community Edition is open-source software released under the AGPL 3.0 that...
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