DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

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

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

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

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

milvus.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

rocksdb.org

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

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

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

CCRi and others

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Facebook, Inc.

Tencent

Initial release

2014

2019

1984

2013

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

2.3.4, January 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

HP Open VMS

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

yes

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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