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DBMS > Bangdb vs. GeoMesa vs. GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. GeoMesa vs. GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleIn-memory JavaScript DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.07
Rank#346  Overall
#47  Document stores
#35  Graph DBMS
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitebangdb.comwww.geomesa.orggeospock.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpouchdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBCCRi and othersGeoSpockApache Software Foundation
Initial release2012201420142012
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20215.0.1, July 20242.0, September 20197.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++ScalaJava, JavascriptJavaScriptJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesnono
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 indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyestemporal, categoricalyes infovia viewsyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJavaScript APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
JavaScriptJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmdepending on storage layerAutomatic shardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)depending on storage layernoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes 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.yes, run db with in-memory only modedepending on storage layernoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)yes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenono

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