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

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.In-memory JavaScript DBMSSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iofauna.comwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.fauna.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperRackspaceFauna, Inc.CCRi and othersSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20132014201420142006
Current release4.0.5, February 20248.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaScalaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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 viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingdepending on storage layernonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layernonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistencydepending on storage layernoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
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.nonodepending on storage layeryesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlnoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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