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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. NuoDB vs. Spark SQL vs. VoltDB

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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

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

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

spark.apache.org/sql

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

doc.nuodb.com

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

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

CCRi and others

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2013

2014

2010

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Scala

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Python
R
Scala

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Java

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

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

none

Multi-source replication
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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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