DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. NebulaGraph vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. NebulaGraph vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

google.github.io/lovefield

machbase.com

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

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

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

machbase.com/dbms

docs.nebula-graph.io

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

CCRi and others

Google

Machbase

Vesoft Inc.

SiteWhere

Initial release

2014

2013

2019

2010

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

predefined scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

selectable replication factor

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Relationships in graphs

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

using RocksDB

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

using MemoryDB

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

simple password-based access control

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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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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