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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. NuoDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.scylladb.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

doc.nuodb.com

docs.scylladb.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

CCRi and others

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

ScyllaDB

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2013

2015

2018

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes, Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Journaling Streams

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

Temporary table

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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