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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. WakandaDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#265	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	22.71
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.kingbase.com.cn

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

CCRi and others

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

1999

2016

1993

2012

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

V8.0, August 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C and Java

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java
PHP

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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