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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. KeyDB vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

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

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

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

docs.keydb.dev

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

CCRi and others

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2014

2019

2011

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

by using the Redis Search module

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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 and ACL

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