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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. GeoMesa vs. LokiJS vs. RDF4J

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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.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

blueflood.io

www.geomesa.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Rackspace

CCRi and others

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2013

2014

2004

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

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

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JavaScript API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

depending on storage layer

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

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.

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

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