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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleIn-memory JavaScript DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.52
Rank#257  Overall
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbgeospock.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAlibabaGeoSpockApache Software Foundation
Initial release20142012
Current release2.0, September 20197.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaScriptJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyes infovia viewsyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCJavaScript APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
JavaScriptJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceAutomatic shardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenono
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