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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. PostGIS vs. SurrealDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. PostGIS vs. SurrealDB vs. XTDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orgpostgis.netsurrealdb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCCRi and othersSurrealDB LtdJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2014200520222019
Current release5.0.0, May 20243.4.2, February 2024v1.5.0, May 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaCRustClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layeryes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, based on authentication and database rules

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