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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB vs. RocksDB vs. SQLite

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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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

geospock.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

pouchdb.com

rocksdb.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

pouchdb.com/guides

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

GeoSpock

Apache Software Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2012

2013

2000

Current release

2.0, September 2019

7.1.1, June 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

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