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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Wide column store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

www.geomesa.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

www.scylladb.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

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

origodb.com/docs

docs.scylladb.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

CCRi and others

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

ScyllaDB

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2014

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2015

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

4.4, October 2021

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Lua

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

none

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Role based authorization

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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