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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. LeanXcale vs. LokiJS vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

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

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

geospock.com

www.leanxcale.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

GeoSpock

LeanXcale

Teradata

Initial release

2015

2014

2005

Current release

2.0, September 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Scala

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

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.

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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