DBMS > GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. MySQL vs. PouchDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. MySQL vs. PouchDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#15	Vector DBMS

Website

geospock.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.mysql.com

pouchdb.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

dev.mysql.com/doc

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

GeoSpock

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

1995

2012

2023

Current release

2.0, September 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

JavaScript

C and C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

via views

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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