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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TerminusDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.In-memory JavaScript DBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCCRi and othersMicrosoftDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2014201420162018
Current release5.0.0, May 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageScalaJavaScriptC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Java
PHP
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptTransact SQLyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernoneSharding, horizontal partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernoneyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layernoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infoin-memory journaling
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 storagenoyesRole-based access control

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