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

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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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented 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	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.featurebase.com

www.geomesa.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

CCRi and others

Konrad von Backstrom

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2014

2018

2014

2019

Current release

2022, May 2022

4.0.5, February 2024

0.8, December 2018

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

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

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL queries

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

JavaScript API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

none

yes, each node contains all data

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

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

ACID

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.

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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