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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. TerminusDB vs. XTDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orgterminusdb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#www.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCCRi and othersDataChemist Ltd.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release201420182019
Current release5.0.0, May 202411.0.0, January 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageScalaProlog, RustClojure
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, 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 indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerJournaling Streamsyes, 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 layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes, 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 layer
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole-based access control

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