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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. GraphDB vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Riak TS

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Name

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

Description

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

Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.10
Rank	#100	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#4	RDF stores

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.ontotext.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

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

graphdb.ontotext.com/documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Social network pages

Developer

CCRi and others

Ontotext

Konrad von Backstrom

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2014

2000

2018

2014

2015

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

10.4, October 2023

0.8, December 2018

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Some plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourced

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

JavaScript

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapes

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

yes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexes

yes

via views

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

stored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBC

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

well-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibility

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Constraint checking

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Default Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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