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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Kinetica vs. LevelDB vs. RavenDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbravendb.netterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdravendb.net/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCCRi and othersKineticaGoogleHibernating RhinosDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20142012201120102018
Current release4.0.5, February 20247.1, August 20211.23, February 20215.4, July 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaC, C++C++C#Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyesyes
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingnoneShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseRole-based access control

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