DBMS > GeoMesa vs. OpenSearch vs. RDF4J vs. Solr vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. OpenSearch vs. RDF4J vs. Solr vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rdf4j.org

solr.apache.org

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

Technical documentation

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

opensearch.org/docs/latest

rdf4j.org/documentation

solr.apache.org/resources.html

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

Developer

CCRi and others

Amazon Web Services

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2021

2004

2006

1987

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

9.6.1, May 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java plugins

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

optimistic locking

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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