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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
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.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA multi-model DBMS and application serverIn-memory JavaScript DBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitegeospock.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.intersystems.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperGeoSpockIBMInterSystemsOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2017199720142009
Current release2.0, September 20192.02018.1.4, May 20203.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC and C++JavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalnoyesyes infovia viewsrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesView functions in JavaScriptErlang
Triggersnonoyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingnonenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoyes, using Riak Security

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