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Name

Description

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

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	410.24
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

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

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

questdb.io/docs

Developer

CCRi and others

MongoDB, Inc

QuestDB Technology Inc

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

2009

2014

2018

Current release

5.0.1, July 2024

7.0.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

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

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID for single-table writes

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

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

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users and roles

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