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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. Splice Machine vs. VelocityDB

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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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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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	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

splicemachine.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

origodb.com/docs

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

CCRi and others

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Splice Machine

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2014

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2014

2011

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

4.4, October 2021

3.1, March 2021

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Role based authorization

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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