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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
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Score0.82
Rank#218  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#385  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.16
Rank#336  Overall
#48  Document stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orgswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCCRi and othersSimer PlahaJuxt Ltd.
Initial release201420182019
Current release4.0.5, February 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageScalaScalaClojure
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Kotlin
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageno

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