DBMS > GeoMesa vs. OrientDB vs. SQLite vs. TinkerGraph vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. OrientDB vs. SQLite vs. TinkerGraph vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

orientdb.org

www.sqlite.org

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

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

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

CCRi and others

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2014

2010

2000

2009

2017

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

server-less

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

depending on used data model

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

TinkerPop 3

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Groovy
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

none

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

yes

based on RocksDB

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

yes

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Licensing and pricing models

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