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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Access vs. OceanBase vs. OrientDB vs. Stardog

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#147  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessen.oceanbase.comorientdb.orgwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasewww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmldocs.stardog.com
DeveloperCCRi and othersMicrosoftOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPStardog-Union
Initial release20141992201020102010
Current release5.0.0, May 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20194.3.0, April 20243.2.29, March 20247.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoCommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyesSQL-like query language, no joinsYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginePL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeJava, Javascriptuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesHooksyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernonehorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernoneMulti-source replication using PaxosMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes inforelationship in graphsyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableAccess rights for users and roles

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