DBMS > Derby vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	5.30
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.geomesa.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CCRi and others

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

1997

2014

2010

2018

2014

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Erlang

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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.

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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