DBMS > H2 vs. KairosDB vs. LokiJS vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. KairosDB vs. LokiJS vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

kairosdb.github.io

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Thomas Mueller

SiteWhere

Initial release

2005

2013

2014

2010

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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 capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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