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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Netezza vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

CCRi and others

Microsoft

IBM

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2015

2000

2010

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

included in appliance

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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