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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Hazelcast vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Typesense

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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.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.76
Rank	#219	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

www.geomesa.org

hazelcast.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

typesense.org

Technical documentation

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

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

typesense.org/docs

Developer

CCRi and others

Hazelcast

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2014

2008

2018

2014

2015

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

5.3.6, November 2023

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

Replicated Map

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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 or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

Role-based access control

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