DBMS > GeoMesa vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. OrigoDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. OrigoDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.marklogic.com

origodb.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.marklogic.com

origodb.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

CCRi and others

MarkLogic Corp.

Robert Friberg et al

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2001

2009

under the name LiveDB

2013

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

11.0, December 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

yes

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

yes

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

Write ahead log

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

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Role based authorization

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