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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. GridGain vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#299	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	2.06
Rank	#125	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#228	Overall
	#34	Document stores

Website

geospock.com

www.gridgain.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.geospock.com/Content/Home.htm

www.gridgain.com/docs/latest

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

GeoSpock

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Initial release

2007

2014

Current release

2.0, September 2019

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java, C++, .Net

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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DB-Engines blog posts

New kids on the block: database management systems implemented in JavaScript
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Recent citations in the news

How GeoSpock is supercharging geospatial analytics
23 February 2021, ComputerWeekly.com

Cambridge-Based GeoSpock Secures £10 Million Additional Funding
8 January 2019, Business Wire

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2 October 2020, EU-Startups

UK-based database GeoSpock bags $5.4m, to expand into
6 October 2020, Tech in Asia

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23 May 2022, The Daily Vale

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