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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. OpenSearch vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase vs. VoltDB

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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

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

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

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

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

spark.apache.org/sql

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

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

opensearch.org/docs/latest

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

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

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

CCRi and others

Amazon Web Services

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2021

2014

1987

2010

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

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

Java

Scala

C and C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Java
Python
R
Scala

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

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

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

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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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

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing models

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