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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic vs. JaguarDB vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

bangdb.com

www.geomesa.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

CCRi and others

Spotify

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2014

2015

2014

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

4.0.5, February 2024

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Scala

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

depending on storage layer

yes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

rights management via user accounts

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