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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PlanetScale vs. RocksDB vs. Warp 10

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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, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#155	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

planetscale.com

rocksdb.org

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

planetscale.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

CCRi and others

Microsoft

PlanetScale

Facebook, Inc.

SenX

Initial release

2014

2016

2020

2013

2015

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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 across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at shard level

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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