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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB vs. Sphinx

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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 DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitegeospock.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpouchdb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpouchdb.com/­guidessphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperGeoSpockApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release201420122001
Current release2.0, September 20197.1.1, June 20193.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaScriptJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonono
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.nonono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyes infovia viewsyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJavaScript APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaScriptC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
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.yes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenonono

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