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

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

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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 DBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitegeospock.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.leanxcale.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperGeoSpockInterSystemsLeanXcaleQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release1997201520142014
Current release2.0, September 20192018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaScriptJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyes infothrough Apache DerbynoSQL with time-series 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 APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C
Java
Scala
JavaScriptC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
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 integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID for single-table writes
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.noyesyesyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno
More information provided by the system vendor
GeoSpockInterSystems CachéLeanXcaleLokiJSQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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