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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Hazelcast vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Hazelcast vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A widely adopted in-memory data gridJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesIn-memory JavaScript DBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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Score0.81
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score6.87
Rank#55  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orghazelcast.comjsqldb.org (offline)github.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperCCRi and othersHazelcastKonrad von BackstromOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20142008201820142009
Current release4.0.5, February 20245.3.6, November 20230.8, December 20183.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonono
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia viewsrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScriptJavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesfunctions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptErlang
Triggersnoyes infoEventsnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingnonenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes infoReplicated Mapnonenoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes 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 layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole-based access controlnoyes, using Riak Security

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