DBMS > GeoMesa vs. mSQL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. mSQL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

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

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

spark.apache.org/sql

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

Technical documentation

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

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

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

Developer

CCRi and others

Hughes Technologies

Sybase, SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

1994

1993

2014

1987

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

4.4, October 2021

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Java
Python
R
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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