DBMS > GeoMesa vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

terminusdb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

CCRi and others

Facebook, Inc.

SAP, Sybase

DataChemist Ltd.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2013

1987

2018

1987

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

16.0

11.0.0, January 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

Source-replica replication

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

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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