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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Kingbase vs. PostGIS vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Kingbase vs. PostGIS vs. TerarkDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa 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.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.kingbase.com.cnpostgis.netgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperCCRi and othersBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2014199920052016
Current release4.0.5, February 2024V8.0, August 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaC and JavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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