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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. SpatiaLite vs. TempoIQ vs. ToroDB

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

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Spatial extension of SQLiteScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indextempoiq.com (offline)github.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperCCRi and othersAlessandro FurieriTempoIQ8Kdata
Initial release2014200820122016
Current release4.0.5, February 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageScalaC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-lessAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnoyesyes infoRealtime Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenosimple authentication-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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