DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Spark SQL vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Spark SQL vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

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

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

CCRi and others

Apache Software Foundation

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2012

2000

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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 DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

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