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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite vs. TerarkDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA 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 modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.81
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score116.01
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orgpouchdb.comwww.sqlite.orggithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guideswww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperCCRi and othersApache Software FoundationDwayne Richard HippByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2014201220002016
Current release4.0.5, February 20247.1.1, June 20193.45.2  (12 March 2024), March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoPublic Domaincommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaScriptCC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.no
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptActionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenonono

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