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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. NuoDB vs. PouchDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleIn-memory JavaScript DBMSNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitedruid.apache.orggeospock.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasepouchdb.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdoc.nuodb.compouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGeoSpockDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release2012201420132012
Current release29.0.1, April 20242.0, September 20197.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptJavaScriptC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyes infovia viewsyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBCJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptJava, SQLView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedAutomatic shardingnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infotunable commit protocolno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC
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.yesyes 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.nonoyesyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersno

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