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

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

terminusdb.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

CCRi and others

DataChemist Ltd.

Yandex

Initial release

2014

2018

2023

Current release

5.0.1, July 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

JavaScript
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Journaling Streams

yes

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

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Role-based access control

Access Control Lists

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