DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.memcached.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

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

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

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

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

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

Developer

CCRi and others

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Microsoft

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2014

2003

2016

1989

2020

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

1.6.25, March 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

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

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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