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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A widely adopted in-memory data gridIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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Score0.81
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#155  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#73  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#374  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score6.87
Rank#55  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.gridgain.comwww.hawkular.orghazelcast.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperCCRi and othersGridGain Systems, Inc.Community supported by Red HatHazelcast
Initial release20142007201420082014
Current release4.0.5, February 2024GridGain 8.5.15.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyesnoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP RESTJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infoEventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoReplicated Mapnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithmnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoRole-based access controlno

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