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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

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

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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

Score	0.78
Rank	#199	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	9.32
Rank	#52	Overall
	#10	Document stores

Score	0.57
Rank	#228	Overall
	#34	Document stores

Score	6.63
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

riak.com/products/riak-kv

Technical documentation

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

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

CCRi and others

Google

Basho Technologies

Initial release

2014

2017

2014

2009

Current release

3.2.0, April 2021

2.1.0, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux
OS X

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript and Erlang

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

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

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

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