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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Graphite vs. LokiJS vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Graphite vs. LokiJS vs. OpenTSDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperIn-memory JavaScript DBMSScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSopentsdb.net
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iotechfort.github.io/­LokiJSopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperCCRi and othersChris Daviscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2014200620142011
Current release4.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaPythonJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlynonumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
JavaScript APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernonenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layernonenoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenonono

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