DBMS > GeoMesa vs. MySQL vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. MySQL vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used RDBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.75
Rank	#216	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1017.80
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	3.56
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	1317.01
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.41
Rank	#261	Overall
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.mysql.com

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/database

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

CCRi and others

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle

Initial release

2014

1995

1984

1980

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

5.0.1, July 2024

9.0.0, July 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

23c, September 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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