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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Kinetica vs. mSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.kinetica.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.postgres-xl.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.kinetica.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperCCRi and othersKineticaHughes TechnologiesSimer Plaha
Initial release2014201219942014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2018
Current release5.0.0, May 20247.1, August 20214.4, October 202110 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaC, C++CCScala
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingnonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID infoMVCCAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
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 RAMnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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