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DBMS > Blueflood vs. GeoMesa vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. GeoMesa vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websiteblueflood.iowww.geomesa.orgwww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidespotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperRackspaceCCRi and othersCommunity supported by Red HatSpotify
Initial release20132014201420142014
Current release4.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 Elasticsearchyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP RESTHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandradepending on storage layerSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandradepending on storage layerselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
depending on storage layerEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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 layernonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenono

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