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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Quasardb vs. RethinkDB vs. Trafodion

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orgquasar.airethinkdb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterrethinkdb.com/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperCCRi and othersquasardbThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2014200920092014
Current release5.0.0, May 20243.14.1, January 20242.4.1, August 20202.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
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
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava Stored Procedures
TriggersnonoClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyeswith Hadoop integrationyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes infoTransient modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes infousers and table-level permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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