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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. NSDb vs. OpenSearch vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	15.65
Rank	#38	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

nsdb.io

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

nsdb.io/Architecture

opensearch.org/docs/latest

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

CCRi and others

Amazon Web Services

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2017

2021

2012

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Scala

Java, Scala

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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