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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. STSdb

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Name	GeoMesa  Xexclude from comparison	Machbase Neo Former name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	STSdb  Xexclude from comparison
Description	GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.	TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	Key-Value Store with special method for indexing optimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database model	Spatial DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.86 Rank #205   Overall #4   Spatial DBMS	Score 0.17 Rank #337   Overall #30   Time Series DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS	Score 0.10 Rank #357   Overall #51   Key-value stores
Website	www.geomesa.org	machbase.com	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentation	www.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html	machbase.com/­dbms	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
Developer	CCRi and others	Machbase	Microsoft	STS Soft SC
Initial release	2014	2013	2016	2011
Current release	5.0.0, May 2024	V8.0, August 2023		4.0.8, September 2015
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache License 2.0	commercial free test version available	commercial	Open Source GPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	yes	no
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Implementation language	Scala	C	C++	C#
Server operating systems		Linux macOS Windows	hosted	Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	yes primitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	no	SQL-like query language	yes	no
APIs and other access methods		gRPC HTTP REST JDBC MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API
Supported programming languages		C C# C++ Go Java JavaScript PHP via ODBC Python R via ODBC Scala	C# Java PHP	C# Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	Transact SQL	no
Triggers	no	no	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	depending on storage layer	Sharding	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	depending on storage layer	selectable replication factor	yes	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	depending on storage layer		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	no	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	no	yes	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 volatile and lookup table
User concepts Access control	yes depending on the DBMS used for storage	simple password-based access control	yes	no
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	GeoMesa	Machbase Neo Former name was Infiniflux	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	STSdb
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