DBMS > GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB vs. Snowflake vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB vs. Snowflake vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

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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	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

geospock.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

pouchdb.com

www.snowflake.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

GeoSpock

Apache Software Foundation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

2014

2012

2014

Current release

2.0, September 2019

7.1.1, June 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)

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

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

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

via views

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes

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

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

Immediate 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

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

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, user roles and pluggable authentication

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