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DBMS > EJDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iokairosdb.github.io
DeveloperSoftmotionsCCRi and othersChris Davis
Initial release2012201420062013
Current release5.0.0, May 20241.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCScalaPythonJava
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryHTTP API
Sockets
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layernoneSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layernoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layernoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenosimple password-based access control

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