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

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

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.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 valuesIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Spatial DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­google/­leveldbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperRackspaceFoundationDBCCRi and othersGoogle
Initial release20132013201420112014
Current release6.2.28, November 20205.0.0, May 20241.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ScalaC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlynonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlynonoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingdepending on storage layernonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesdepending on storage layernonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Linearizable consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenono

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