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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Hive vs. LokiJS vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Hive vs. LokiJS vs. VelocityDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orghive.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Hometechfort.github.io/­LokiJSvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperCCRi and othersApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2014201220142011
Current release4.0.5, February 20243.1.3, April 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JavaScript API.Net
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions in JavaScriptno
TriggersnonoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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 layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoBased on Windows Authentication

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