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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. GeoMesa vs. GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. TerarkDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

www.geomesa.org

geospock.com

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Altibase

CCRi and others

GeoSpock

Google

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

1999

2014

2016

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

2.0, September 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Java, Javascript

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

JavaScript

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users can be defined per table

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