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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB vs. SurrealDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.In-memory JavaScript DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Document storeDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitegeospock.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpouchdb.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpouchdb.com/­guidessurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGeoSpockGoogleApache Software FoundationSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2015201420122022
Current release2.0, September 20197.1.1, June 2019v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaScriptJavaScriptRust
Server operating systemshostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnononoyes
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 indexestemporal, categoricalnoyes infovia viewsyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
JavaScript APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptJavaScriptDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)noneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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 backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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