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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. RDFox vs. Titan vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. RDFox vs. Titan vs. Vitess

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikivitess.io/­docs
DeveloperCCRi and othersOxford Semantic TechnologiesAurelius, owned by DataStaxThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2014201720122013
Current release5.0.0, May 20246.0, Septermber 202215.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageScalaC++JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Clojure
Java
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 proceduresnoyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layeryes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerreplication via a shared file systemyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRoles, resources, and access typesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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