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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle vs. SQream DB vs. Tarantool

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  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.)Widely used RDBMSa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
Spatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1244.08
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.oracle.com/­databasesqream.comwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.oracle.com/­en/­databasedocs.sqream.comwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperCCRi and othersMicrosoftOracleSQream TechnologiesVK
Initial release20141992198020172008
Current release5.0.0, May 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201923c, September 20232022.1.6, December 20222.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++C and C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxBSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columnsyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginePL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possibleuser defined functions in PythonLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernoneSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono infocan be realized in PL/SQLno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID infoisolation level can be parameterizedACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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