DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Machbase Neo vs. NebulaGraph vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Machbase Neo vs. NebulaGraph vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

machbase.com

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

rethinkdb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

Developer

CCRi and others

Machbase

Vesoft Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SAP

Initial release

2014

2013

2019

2009

2010

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

V8.0, August 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

range based

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes

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