DBMS > GeoMesa vs. MongoDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. ScyllaDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. MongoDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. ScyllaDB vs. Sphinx

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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

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

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

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Key-value store

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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	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.mongodb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.scylladb.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

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

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.scylladb.com

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

CCRi and others

MongoDB, Inc

SAP, Sybase

ScyllaDB

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2014

2009

1987

2015

2001

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

6.0.7, June 2023

16.0

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

3.5.1, February 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.

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
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

yes

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

cluster global secondary indices

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

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

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Proprietary 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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Java and Transact-SQL

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

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

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

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

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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