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System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. LokiJS vs. Newts vs. PostGIS

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NameKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.In-memory JavaScript DBMSTime Series DBMS based on CassandraSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.kingbase.com.cngithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSopennms.github.io/­newtspostgis.net
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.OpenNMS Group
Initial release1999201420142005
Current releaseV8.0, August 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaScriptJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JavaScript APIHTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScriptJava
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptnouser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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