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

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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

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#348	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

machbase.com

rethinkdb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

machbase.com/dbms

rethinkdb.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

CCRi and others

Machbase

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SAP

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2013

2009

2010

2018

Current release

5.0.1, July 2024

V8.0, August 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

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++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

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

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

Journaling Streams

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

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes

Role-based access control

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