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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. OpenSearch vs. SQLite vs. Valentina Server

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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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	16.31
Rank	#36	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sqlite.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

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

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

CCRi and others

Amazon Web Services

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2014

2021

2000

1999

Current release

5.0.1, July 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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 search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

none

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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