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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. GeoMesa vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

GeoMesa 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 storage

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
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	#4	Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.geomesa.org

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

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

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

CCRi and others

Simer Plaha

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2023

2014

2018

2019

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Clojure

Server operating systems

server-less

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

yes, each node contains all data

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

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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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