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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. searchxml

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.geomesa.orgpostgis.netquasar.aiwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperCCRi and othersquasardbinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release2014200520092015
Current release5.0.0, May 20243.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaCC++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes infoon the application server
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layeryes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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