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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SiteWhere

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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.)Application development environment with integrated database management systemM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.progress.com/­openedgewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperCCRi and othersMicrosoftProgress Software CorporationOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)SiteWhere
Initial release20141992198419842010
Current release4.0.5, February 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019OpenEdge 12.2, March 20207.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++Java
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
HP Open VMSLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)predefined scheme
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infoclose to SQL 92yesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDyes, on a single nodeno
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 layernonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Users and groupsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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