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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. NSDb vs. Spark SQL vs. Speedb vs. Transbase

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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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#310	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

nsdb.io/Architecture

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

CCRi and others

Apache Software Foundation

Speedb

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2017

2014

2020

1987

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java, Scala

Scala

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
Scala

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Speedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantages

Speedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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