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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb vs. Tigris vs. Transbase

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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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

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

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#363	Overall
	#49	Document stores
	#54	Key-value stores
	#22	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.tigrisdata.com

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.tigrisdata.com/docs

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

Developer

CCRi and others

Apache Software Foundation

STS Soft SC

Tigris Data, Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2011

2022

1987

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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 DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

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

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

yes

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using FoundationDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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