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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Kingbase vs. PouchDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score0.44
Rank#258  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.kingbase.com.cnpouchdb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docspouchdb.com/­guideswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Apache Software FoundationAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2002199920122008
Current release1.1, February 2017V8.0, August 20217.1.1, June 20195.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)Standard with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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