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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. RDFox

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Name

Description

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

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.87
Rank	#239	Overall
	#5	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#295	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

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

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

CCRi and others

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2014

2017

Current release

4.0.4, October 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

replication via a shared file system

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

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

Roles, resources, and access types

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