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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

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

pouchdb.com/guides

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

CCRi and others

Apache Software Foundation

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2014

2012

2009

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

Erlang

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

yes, using Riak Security

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