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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. WakandaDB

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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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

google.github.io/lovefield

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

CCRi and others

Google

Microsoft

SAP

formerly Sybase

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2016

1992

2012

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

17, July 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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