DBMS > Apache Druid vs. GeoMesa vs. RocksDB vs. SQL.JS vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. GeoMesa vs. RocksDB vs. SQL.JS vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

CCRi and others

Facebook, Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2014

2013

2012

2009

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

5.0.0, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

depending on storage layer

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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