DBMS > GeoMesa vs. openGemini vs. PostGIS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. openGemini vs. PostGIS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#375	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

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

docs.opengemini.org/guide

postgis.net/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

CCRi and others

Huawei and openGemini community

SAP

formerly Sybase

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2014

2022

2005

1992

2016

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

1.1, July 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Administrators and common users accounts

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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