DBMS > GeoMesa vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OrigoDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OrigoDB vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

origodb.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

origodb.com/docs

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

CCRi and others

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2014

1991

1989

2009

under the name LiveDB

2012

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

5.7

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

yes

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

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

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Relationships in graph

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

Write ahead log

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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