DBMS > GeoMesa vs. SpaceTime vs. SpatiaLite vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. SpaceTime vs. SpatiaLite vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB 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.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Spatial extension of SQLite

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

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

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

CCRi and others

Mireo

Alessandro Furieri

8Kdata

Initial release

2014

2020

2008

2016

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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