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

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

rethinkdb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

rethinkdb.com/docs

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

CCRi and others

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Mireo

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2014

2009

2020

2014

Current release

5.0.1, July 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C#
C++
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

range based

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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