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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. MaxDB vs. RDFox vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. MaxDB vs. RDFox vs. TerminusDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgmaxdb.sap.comwww.oxfordsemantic.techterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.techterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCCRi and othersSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Oxford Semantic TechnologiesDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2014198420172018
Current release5.0.0, May 20247.9.10.12, February 20246.0, Septermber 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageScalaC++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationreplication via a shared file systemJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRoles, resources, and access typesRole-based access control

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