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DBMS > Blueflood vs. GeoMesa vs. HarperDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. GeoMesa vs. HarperDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.HarperDB takes the "stack" out of "tech stack" by combining an ultra-fast document-style data store, in-memory cache, real-time message broker, and your application components into a single distributed technology.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#243  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#306  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.geomesa.orgwww.harperdb.iowww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperRackspaceCCRi and othersHarperDBGoogle
Initial release20132014201720132014
Current release5.0.1, July 20243.1, August 20212.7.6, April 20242.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaNode.jsGoJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemepredefined schemeyesdynamic schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON data typesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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 indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1nono
TriggersnonononoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandradepending on storage layerA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandradepending on storage layeryes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
depending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layeryesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users and rolessimple rights management via user accountsno
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BluefloodGeoMesaHarperDBInfluxDBLovefield
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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