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

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

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

Time Series DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#190	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.geomesa.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

apple.github.io/foundationdb

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

FoundationDB

CCRi and others

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2013

2014

2006

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

4.0.5, February 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

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

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

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

Linearizable consistency

depending on storage layer

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

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

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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

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