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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. LokiJS vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle NoSQL

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

google.github.io/lovefield

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

Technical documentation

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Developer

CCRi and others

Google

Oracle

Initial release

2014

2011

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

using MemoryDB

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users and roles

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