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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Riak KV vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Riak KV vs. TiDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score3.07
Rank#86  Overall
#15  Document stores
#11  Key-value stores
#47  Relational DBMS
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score4.09
Rank#72  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlpingcap.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperCCRi and othersOracleOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release2014201120092016
Current release5.0.1, July 202424.1, May 20243.2.0, December 20228.2.0, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaErlangGo, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlangno
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureselectable replication factorUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyeswith Hadoop integrationyesyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)noACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes infooff heap cacheno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users and rolesyes, using Riak SecurityFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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GeoMesaOracle NoSQLRiak KVTiDB
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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