DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

manticoresearch.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

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

manual.manticoresearch.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

CCRi and others

Manticore Software

Microsoft

Oracle

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2017

1989

2011

2013

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

6.0, February 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

optional

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

simple password-based access control

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