DBMS > Derby vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. Kinetica 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.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.geomesa.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.kinetica.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

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

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

docs.kinetica.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CCRi and others

Konrad von Backstrom

Kinetica

Initial release

1997

2014

2018

2012

2014

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

0.8, December 2018

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

commercial

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

C, C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

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

Data 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

none

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

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 and roles on table level

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