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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. LokiJS vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.snowflake.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

CCRi and others

Snowflake Computing Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2018

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

none

Immediate Consistency

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

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

in-memory journaling

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role-based access control

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