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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Prometheus vs. RethinkDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgprometheus.iorethinkdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperCCRi and othersThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017VelocityDB Inc
Initial release2014201520092011
Current release5.0.0, May 20242.4.1, August 20207.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaGoC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.nono infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
TriggersnonoClient-side triggers through changefeedsCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes infoby FederationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layernoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoyes infousers and table-level permissionsBased on Windows Authentication

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