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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Riak KV

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  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.JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesIn-memory JavaScript DBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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Score0.81
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score22.71
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orgjsqldb.org (offline)github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperCCRi and othersKonrad von BackstromMicrosoftOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20142018201420162009
Current release4.0.5, February 20240.8, December 20183.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageScalaJavaScriptC++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaScriptC#
Java
PHP
C 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 proceduresnofunctions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptTransact SQLErlang
Triggersnonoyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernonenoneSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernonenoneyesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layernoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDByes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoyesyes, using Riak Security

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