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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. PostGIS vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerarkDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

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

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

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	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

postgis.net

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

CCRi and others

Teradata

ByteDance, originally Terark

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2014

2005

2016

1999

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

R packages

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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