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

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Name

Description

GeoMesa 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 values

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

github.com/google/leveldb

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

postgis.net

rockset.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

postgis.net/documentation

docs.rockset.com

Developer

CCRi and others

Google

Microsoft

Rockset

Initial release

2014

2011

1989

2005

2019

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

1.23, February 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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

Eventual 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

with automatic compression on writes

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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