DBMS > Blueflood vs. GeoMesa vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. GeoMesa vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 vs. LokiJS

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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.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

blueflood.io

www.geomesa.org

www.hawkular.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

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

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Rackspace

CCRi and others

Community supported by Red Hat

IBM

Initial release

2013

2014

1983

host version

2014

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

12.1, October 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

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

Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

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

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

depending on storage layer

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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