DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. STSdb vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. STSdb vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

CCRi and others

Microsoft

STS Soft SC

Tencent

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2011

2013

2012

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

.NET Client API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C#
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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