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

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

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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Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	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.claris.com/filemaker

www.geomesa.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

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

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

CCRi and others

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2013

1983

2014

2006

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

4.0.5, February 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

PHP

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

depending on storage layer

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

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

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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

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