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

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

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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Trend Chart

Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#252	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.geomesa.org

www.harperdb.io

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.harperdb.io/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Rackspace

CCRi and others

HarperDB

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2013

2014

2017

2014

2006

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

3.1, August 2021

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

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

Scala

Node.js

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

depending on storage layer

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

depending on storage layer

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

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

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of specific operations

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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 and roles

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

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