DBMS > GeoSpock vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Lovefield

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Name

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.

Description

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

geospock.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

GeoSpock

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

InterSystems

Google

Initial release

2010

1997

2014

Current release

2.0, September 2019

2018.1.4, May 2020

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Erlang

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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