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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. LeanXcale vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

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

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#283	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.leanxcale.com

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

CCRi and others

LeanXcale

Initial release

2014

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

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

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