DBMS > FatDB vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. ObjectBox

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

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

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

FatCloud

CCRi and others

Konrad von Backstrom

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2012

2014

2018

2014

2017

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JavaScript API

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

depending on storage layer

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

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.

yes

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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16 May 2024

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

Vector Databases for Edge AI
9 August 2023

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