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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. BaseX vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	1.31
Rank	#159	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

basex.org

www.geomesa.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

docs.basex.org

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

BaseX GmbH

CCRi and others

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2018

2007

2014

2018

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

11.2, August 2024

5.0.1, July 2024

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

none

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

none

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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