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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. MaxDB

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Name

Description

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

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Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

www.featurebase.com

www.geomesa.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

CCRi and others

Spotify

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2017

2014

1984

Current release

2022, May 2022

4.0.5, February 2024

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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 Elasticsearch

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

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

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using Linux fsync

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.

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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