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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Kinetica vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Kinetica vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  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 relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.kinetica.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperCCRi and othersKineticaGoogleMicrosoft
Initial release2014201220142016
Current release5.0.0, May 20247.1, August 20212.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageScalaC, C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safarihosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoTransact SQL
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
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 persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
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 RAMyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoyes

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