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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Newts vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

www.geomesa.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

CCRi and others

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

2012

2014

2011

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

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 based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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