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

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

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document store
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Score0.26
Rank#311  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#218  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.79
Rank#113  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.52
Rank#259  Overall
#41  Document stores
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantjsqldb.org (offline)github.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperEsgynCCRi and othersIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Konrad von Backstrom
Initial release20152014201020182014
Current release4.0.5, February 20240.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaScalaErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonono
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptfunctions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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