DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Machbase Neo vs. RethinkDB vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Machbase Neo vs. RethinkDB vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine

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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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

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

machbase.com/dbms

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

CCRi and others

Machbase

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2014

2013

2009

2014

2019

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

V8.0, August 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions 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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

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 (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

range based

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

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

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 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

users and table-level permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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