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DBMS > Blueflood vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.In-memory JavaScript DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websiteblueflood.iogeospock.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpouchdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikifirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoretechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperRackspaceGeoSpockGoogleApache Software Foundation
Initial release2013201720142012
Current release2.0, September 20197.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptJavaScriptJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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 indexesnotemporal, categoricalyesyes infovia viewsyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBCAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
JavaScriptJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes, with Cloud Functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraAutomatic shardingShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflowyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.nono

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