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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. HBase vs. JanusGraph vs. Newts vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. HBase vs. JanusGraph vs. Newts vs. PouchDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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 scaleWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Time Series DBMS based on CassandraJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitegeospock.comhbase.apache.orgjanusgraph.orgopennms.github.io/­newtspouchdb.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.janusgraph.orggithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperGeoSpockApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusOpenNMS GroupApache Software Foundation
Initial release2008201720142012
Current release2.0, September 20192.3.4, January 20210.6.3, February 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesno
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 indexestemporal, categoricalnoyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
JavaJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in JavayesnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding infobased on CassandraSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes 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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Servernono

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