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DBMS > BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. Riak KV vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. Riak KV vs. SQL.JS

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Name

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

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

CCRi and others

Konrad von Backstrom

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2015

2014

2018

2009

2012

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

0.8, December 2018

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Scala

Erlang

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

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

Data scheme

yes

yes

schema-free

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

no

no

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.

no

no

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

no

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

no

no

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

no

functions in JavaScript

Erlang

no

Triggers

no

no

no

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

yes

no

yes

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

no

no

no

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

no

no

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

using RocksDB

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

no

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes, using Riak Security

no

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