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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LeanXcale vs. LokiJS vs. PostgreSQL

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LeanXcale vs. LokiJS vs. PostgreSQL

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  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 scaleA multi-model DBMS and application serverA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesIn-memory JavaScript DBMSWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score645.54
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Websitegeospock.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.leanxcale.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.postgresql.org
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.postgresql.org/­docs
DeveloperGeoSpockInterSystemsLeanXcalePostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developer
Initial release1997201520141989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL
Current release2.0, September 20192018.1.4, May 202016.3, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaScriptC
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.noyesnoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyes infothrough Apache Derbynoyes infostandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C
Java
Scala
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnonenonepartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.noyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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