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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. OpenSearch vs. SingleStore vs. Ultipa

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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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.singlestore.com

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

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

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.singlestore.com

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

CCRi and others

Amazon Web Services

SingleStore Inc.

Ultipa

Initial release

2014

2021

2013

2019

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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 control via users, groups and roles

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Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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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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Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customers

IEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metrics

Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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