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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Access vs. SiteWhere vs. SpaceTime vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Access vs. SiteWhere vs. SpaceTime vs. SQL.JS

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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.)M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.mireo.com/­spacetimesql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperCCRi and othersMicrosoftSiteWhereMireoAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20141992201020202012
Current release5.0.0, May 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++JavaC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyespredefined schemeyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
C++
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernoneSharding infobased on HBaseFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Users with fine-grained authorization conceptyesno

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