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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. RDF4J vs. Solr vs. Transbase vs. Vitess

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRDF storeSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgrdf4j.orgsolr.apache.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentationsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperCCRi and othersSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Apache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbHThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20142004200619872013
Current release5.0.0, May 20249.6.1, May 2024Transbase 8.3, 202215.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaJavaC and C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
PHP
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJava pluginsyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernoneyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedoptimistic lockingyesACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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