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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

nsdb.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

nsdb.io/Architecture

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

CCRi and others

Microsoft

SAP, Sybase

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2016

2017

1987

2012

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

16.0

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

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

C++

Java, Scala

C and C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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 fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

Java
Scala

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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