DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 vs. JSqlDb vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 vs. JSqlDb vs. Riak KV

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  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.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.82
Rank#218  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score127.75
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score4.95
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2jsqldb.org (offline)
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2www.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperCCRi and othersIBMKonrad von BackstromOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20141983 infohost version20182009
Current release4.0.5, February 202412.1, October 20160.8, December 20183.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree version is availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageScalaC and C++Erlang
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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 indexesyesyesnorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
JavaScriptC 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 proceduresnoyesfunctions in JavaScriptErlang
Triggersnoyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)noneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Security

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
GeoMesaIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2JSqlDbRiak KV
DB-Engines blog posts

Spatial database management systems
6 April 2021, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

IBM's vintage Db2 database jumps on AWS's cloud bandwagon
29 November 2023, The Register

Getting started with new Amazon RDS for Db2 | Amazon Web Services
27 November 2023, AWS Blog

Celebrating 40 years of Db2: Running the world's mission critical workloads
11 September 2023, ibm.com

How Amazon RDS for IBM Db2 Showcases the Power of Co-Creation
21 December 2023, Acceleration Economy

IBM Collaborates with AWS to Launch a New Cloud Database Offering, Enabling Customers to Optimize Data ...
27 November 2023, PR Newswire

provided by Google News

Basho Revamps Riak Open-Source Database
22 September 2023, InformationWeek

Basho, Maker of Riak NoSQL Database, Raises $25M
13 January 2015, Data Center Knowledge

A Critique of Resizable Hash Tables: Riak Core & Random Slicing
26 August 2018, InfoQ.com

Riak's NoSQL Database and its New Fit with Apache Mesos
19 August 2015, The New Stack

Riak Taps Mesos for 'Push Button' NoSQL Scalability
20 August 2015, Datanami

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

AllegroGraph logo

Graph Database Leader for AI Knowledge Graph Applications - The Most Secure Graph Database Available.
Free Download

Ontotext logo

GraphDB allows you to link diverse data, index it for semantic search and enrich it via text analysis to build big knowledge graphs. Get it free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Present your product here