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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS vs. PostGIS

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  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 serverIn-memory JavaScript DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitegeospock.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperGeoSpockInterSystems
Initial release199720142005
Current release2.0, September 20192018.1.4, May 20203.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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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)
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-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
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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