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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. MySQL vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. YottaDB

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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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

CCRi and others

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2014

1995

2011

2001

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

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

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

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

optimistic locking

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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