DBMS > EsgynDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Informix vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Informix vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS

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Name

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

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

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

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	17.87
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.geomesa.org

www.ibm.com/products/informix

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

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

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Esgyn

CCRi and others

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2015

2014

1984

2018

2014

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

14.10.FC5, November 2020

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

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

C++, Java

Scala

C, C++ and Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

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

Immediate 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 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.

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

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

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