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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. InfluxDB vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. InfluxDB vs. LokiJS

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  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 scaleGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.53
Rank#155  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#73  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#374  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score26.56
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitegeospock.comwww.gridgain.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperGeoSpockGridGain Systems, Inc.Community supported by Red Hat
Initial release2007201420132014
Current release2.0, September 2019GridGain 8.5.12.7.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJava, C++, .NetJavaGoJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Stringsno
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesnonoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP RESTHTTP API
JSON over UDP
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nonoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnosimple rights management via user accountsno
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