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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. Newts vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

opennms.github.io/newts

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

CCRi and others

Embarcadero

OpenNMS Group

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2014

1984

2014

2012

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

HTTP REST
Java API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

Java

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Interbase Change Views

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

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

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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