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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Oracles in-memory data grid solutionRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value storeRDF storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.82
Rank#218  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#126  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.72
Rank#234  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score125.38
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencerdf4j.orgwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencerdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperCCRi and othersOracleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Snowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2014200720042014
Current release4.0.5, February 202414.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageScalaJavaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infoLive Eventsyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes, with selectable consistency levelnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoconfigurableACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infooptionallyyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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