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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. mSQL vs. NSDb vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. mSQL vs. NSDb vs. RRDtool

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlnsdb.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlnsdb.io/­Architectureoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperCCRi and othersHughes TechnologiesTobias Oetiker
Initial release2014199420171999
Current release5.0.0, May 20244.4, October 20211.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaCJava, ScalaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringNumeric data only
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Java
Scala
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layernoneEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenono

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