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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PostGIS vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PostGIS vs. RethinkDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverpostgis.netrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverpostgis.net/­documentationrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCCRi and othersGoogleMicrosoftThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20142011198920052009
Current release5.0.0, May 20241.23, February 2021SQL Server 2022, November 20223.4.2, February 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoBSDcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++C++CC++
Server operating systemsIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javauser defined functions
TriggersnonoyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernoneyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infousers and table-level permissions

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