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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Kdb vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

High performance Time Series DBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

kx.com

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

code.kx.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

CCRi and others

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Simer Plaha

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2018

2019

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

3.6, May 2018

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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