DBMS > GeoMesa vs. PostGIS vs. Qdrant vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. PostGIS vs. Qdrant vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. VelocityDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

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

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

postgis.net

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

qdrant.tech/documentation

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

CCRi and others

Qdrant

Sybase, SAP

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2014

2005

2021

1993

2011

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Rust

Server operating systems

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Delphi
Perl
PHP

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Collection-level replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Key-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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