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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Valentina Server vs. YottaDB

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Name	GeoMesa  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	Valentina Server  Xexclude from comparison	YottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
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	Object-relational database and reports server	A fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database model	Spatial DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Key-value store
Secondary database models				Relational DBMS using the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.86 Rank #205   Overall #4   Spatial DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS	Score 0.21 Rank #325   Overall #144   Relational DBMS	Score 0.28 Rank #306   Overall #44   Key-value stores
Website	www.geomesa.org	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.valentina-db.net	yottadb.com
Technical documentation	www.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics	valentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php	yottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
Developer	CCRi and others	Microsoft	Paradigma Software	YottaDB, LLC
Initial release	2014	2016	1999	2001
Current release	5.0.0, May 2024		5.7.5
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache License 2.0	commercial	commercial	Open Source AGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	Scala	C++		C
Server operating systems		hosted	Linux OS X Windows	Docker Linux
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	no
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.	no	no		no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	yes	by using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methods		ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	ODBC	PostgreSQL wire protocol using the Octo plugin Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages		C# Java PHP	.Net C C# C++ Objective-C PHP Ruby Visual Basic Visual Basic.NET	C Go JavaScript (Node.js) Lua M Perl Python Rust
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Transact SQL	yes
Triggers	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	depending on storage layer	Sharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	depending on storage layer	yes		yes
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	depending on storage layer	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no 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	no	ACID		optimistic locking
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	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	yes
User concepts Access control	yes depending on the DBMS used for storage	yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms
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	GeoMesa	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	Valentina Server	YottaDB
DB-Engines blog posts	Spatial database management systems 6 April 2021, Matthias Gelbmann show all
Recent citations in the news		General Available: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now GA | Azure updates 8 April 2024, Microsoft Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support | Azure updates 22 March 2024, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics: Everything you need to know about Microsoft's cloud analytics platform 24 September 2023, DataScientest Migrate Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to Amazon Redshift using AWS SCT | Amazon Web Services 18 October 2023, AWS Blog Azure Synapse vs. Databricks: Data Platform Comparison 2024 26 March 2024, eWeek provided by Google News	A Look at Valentina — SitePoint 18 April 2014, SitePoint MySQL GUI Tools for Windows and Ubuntu/Linux: Top 8 free or open source 7 December 2018, H2S Media provided by Google News

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