DBMS > GeoMesa vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Qdrant vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Qdrant vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

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 high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

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

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

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

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

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

CCRi and others

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Qdrant

Transwarp

Initial release

2014

1991

1989

2021

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 Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL-like query language

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)

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Triggers

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Collection-level replication

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, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

Key-based authentication

yes

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