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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Blueflood vs. Elasticsearch vs. GeoMesa vs. LokiJS

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financeblueflood.iowww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAxibase CorporationRackspaceElasticCCRi and others
Initial release20132013201020142014
Current release155858.6, January 20234.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScalaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyespredefined schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingdepending on storage layernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesdepending on storage layernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoES-Hadoop Connectoryesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, alldepending on storage layernone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageno

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