DBMS > BigObject vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. MySQL vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. MySQL vs. SpaceTime

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Name

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

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Widely used open source RDBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.gbase.cn

geospock.com

www.mysql.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

GeoSpock

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Mireo

Initial release

2015

2004

1995

2020

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.0, September 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java, Javascript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Standard with numerous extensions

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

with proprietary extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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