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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Kinetica vs. OpenTSDB vs. RethinkDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Kinetica vs. OpenTSDB vs. RethinkDB vs. Rockset

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.58
Rank#105  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.kinetica.comopentsdb.netrethinkdb.comrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.kinetica.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperCCRi and othersKineticacurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Rockset
Initial release20142012201120092019
Current release5.0.1, July 20247.1, August 20212.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageScalaC, C++JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrydynamic typing
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.nonononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding inforange basedAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replicationyes
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 Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 RAMnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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