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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Datomic vs. GeoMesa vs. LokiJS vs. Sadas Engine

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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.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.datomic.com

www.geomesa.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.datomic.com

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Rackspace

Cognitect

CCRi and others

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2013

2012

2014

2006

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

Scala

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

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

horizontal partitioning

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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

yes

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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