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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. PouchDB vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

pouchdb.com

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

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

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.timescale.com

Developer

CCRi and others

Apache Software Foundation

Timescale

Initial release

2014

2012

2017

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

2.13.0, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

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

Eventual Consistency

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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