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DBMS > CouchDB vs. GeoSpock vs. HyperSQL vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. GeoSpock vs. HyperSQL vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA multi-model DBMS and application serverIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggeospock.comhsqldb.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablehsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.intersystems.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGeoSpockInterSystems
Initial release2005200119972014
Current release3.3.3, December 20232.0, September 20192.7.2, June 20232018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJava, JavascriptJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesdepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewstemporal, categoricalyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBCHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoJava, SQLyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Automatic shardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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