DBMS > Blueflood vs. Datomic vs. GeoMesa vs. LevelDB vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Datomic vs. GeoMesa vs. LevelDB vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

blueflood.io

www.datomic.com

www.geomesa.org

github.com/google/leveldb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.datomic.com

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

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Rackspace

Cognitect

CCRi and others

Google

Initial release

2013

2012

2014

2011

2014

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

Scala

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate 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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

recommended only for testing and development

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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