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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. ClickHouse vs. GeoMesa vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.In-memory JavaScript DBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.11
Rank#350  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score16.31
Rank#37  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#218  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#259  Overall
#41  Document stores
Score4.95
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websiteblueflood.ioclickhouse.comwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiclickhouse.com/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperRackspaceClickhouse Inc.CCRi and othersOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20132016201420142009
Current releasev23.12.1.1368-stable, December 20234.0.5, February 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ScalaJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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 indexesnoyesyesyes infovia viewsrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)nonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
JavaScript APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
Go info3rd party library
Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
PHP info3rd party library
Python info3rd party library
R info3rd party library
Ruby info3rd party library
Rust
Scala info3rd party library
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoView functions in JavaScriptErlang
Triggersnononoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrakey based and customdepending on storage layernoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.depending on storage layernoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistencydepending on storage layernoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.yes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoyes, using Riak Security

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