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DBMS > Blueflood vs. GeoMesa vs. Graphite vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. GeoMesa vs. Graphite vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperIn-memory JavaScript DBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websiteblueflood.iowww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iotechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperRackspaceCCRi and othersChris DavisOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20132014200620142009
Current release4.0.5, February 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaPythonJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
Unix
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlynono
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 indexesnoyesnoyes infovia viewsrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP API
Sockets
JavaScript APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScriptErlang
Triggersnononoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandradepending on storage layernonenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandradepending on storage layernonenoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
depending on storage layernonenoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes
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.nodepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenonoyes, using Riak Security

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