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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. KairosDB vs. LokiJS vs. NSDb vs. PouchDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
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Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

geospock.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

nsdb.io

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

nsdb.io/Architecture

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

GeoSpock

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2013

2014

2017

2012

Current release

2.0, September 2019

1.2.2, November 2018

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java

JavaScript

Java, Scala

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Linux
macOS

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

via views

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Java
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

Using Apache Lucene

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

simple password-based access control

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Recent citations in the news

How GeoSpock is supercharging geospatial analytics
23 February 2021, ComputerWeekly.com

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2 October 2020, AlexaBlockchain

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20 June 2019, AWS Blog

GeoSpock launches Spatial Big Data Platform 2.0
4 September 2019, VanillaPlus

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27 February 2019, Geospatial World

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2 September 2019, CNX Software

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10 March 2014, SitePoint

Getting Started with PouchDB Client-Side JavaScript Database — SitePoint
7 September 2016, SitePoint

3 Reasons To Think Offline First
22 March 2017, IBM

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