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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB vs. YTsaurus

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Name

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.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

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

rethinkdb.com/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

CCRi and others

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Simer Plaha

DataChemist Ltd.

Yandex

Initial release

2014

2009

2018

2023

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Scala

Prolog, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Ubuntu

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

JavaScript
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

range based

none

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

none

Journaling Streams

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

Role-based access control

Access Control Lists

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