DBMS > GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. OushuDB vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. OushuDB vs. Riak KV

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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.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.oushu.com/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

CCRi and others

Konrad von Backstrom

Oushu

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2014

2018

2014

2009

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

0.8, December 2018

4.0.1, August 2020

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

yes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

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

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

yes, using Riak Security

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