DBMS > FeatureBase vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. KairosDB vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. KairosDB vs. LokiJS

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Name

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

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.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.featurebase.com

www.geomesa.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

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

kairosdb.github.io

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

CCRi and others

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2017

2014

2018

2013

2014

Current release

2022, May 2022

4.0.5, February 2024

0.8, December 2018

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

Scala

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
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

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

SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

JavaScript

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using Linux fsync

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.

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

simple password-based access control

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