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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Kingbase vs. Milvus vs. STSdb

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Name

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.

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#265	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	1.81
Rank	#144	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.kingbase.com.cn

milvus.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

CCRi and others

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

1999

2019

2011

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

V8.0, August 2021

2.3.4, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C and Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

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

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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