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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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 distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

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

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Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	421.65
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.mongodb.com

www.risingwave.com/database

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

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

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

Developer

CCRi and others

MongoDB, Inc

RisingWave Labs

8Kdata

Initial release

2014

2009

2022

2016

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

6.0.7, June 2023

1.2, September 2023

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 Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java 7 VM

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Standard SQL-types and JSON

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

UDFs in Python or Java

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.

Sharding

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

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

Eventual Consistency
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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users and roles

Users and Roles

Access rights for users and roles

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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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