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DBMS > BoltDB vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesIn-memory JavaScript DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Document storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgeospock.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperGeoSpockIBMApache Software Foundation
Initial release2013201720142012
Current release2.0, September 20192.07.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoJava, JavascriptC and C++JavaScriptJavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionserver-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 datenoyesyesnono
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, categoricalnoyes infovia viewsyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaScriptJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneActive-active shard replicationnoneMulti-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 systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes 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.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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