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

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  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 graphSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataIn-memory JavaScript DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitebangdb.comgeospock.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpouchdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.cominformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
techfort.github.io/­LokiJSpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBGeoSpockIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release2012198420142012
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20212.0, September 201914.10.FC5, November 20207.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++Java, JavascriptC, C++ and JavaJavaScriptJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
server-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, eventsyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialtemporal, categoricalyesyes infovia viewsyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesnono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmAutomatic shardingShardingnoneSharding 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)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno 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 modenoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users can be defined per tableUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsnono

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