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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.In-memory JavaScript DBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value store
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSrocksdb.org
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperCCRi and othersOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesFacebook, Inc.
Initial release2014201420092013
Current release4.0.5, February 20243.2.0, December 20228.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaScriptErlangC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonono
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 viewsrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC 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
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptErlangno
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernoneSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernoneselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layernoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoyes
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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoyes, using Riak Securityno

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