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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Rockset vs. RRDtool vs. Transbase vs. XTDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orgrockset.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.rockset.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCCRi and othersRocksetTobias OetikerTransaction Software GmbHJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20142019199919872019
Current release5.0.0, May 20241.8.0, 2022Transbase 8.3, 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC and C++Clojure
Server operating systemshostedHP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesdynamic typingNumeric data onlyyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsnoyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTin-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerAutomatic shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryesnoneSource-replica replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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