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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. NuoDB vs. PlanetScale vs. PouchDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleIn-memory JavaScript DBMSNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitegeospock.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaseplanetscale.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdoc.nuodb.complanetscale.com/­docspouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperGeoSpockDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.PlanetScaleApache Software Foundation
Initial release2014201320202012
Current release2.0, September 20197.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaScriptC++GoJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyes infovia viewsyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptJava, SQLyes infoproprietary syntaxView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infotunable commit protocolACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTemporary tableyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesno

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