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DBMS > BigObject vs. GeoSpock vs. HBase vs. Spark SQL vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GeoSpock vs. HBase vs. Spark SQL vs. ToroDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogeospock.comhbase.apache.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iohbase.apache.org/­book.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.GeoSpockApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetApache Software Foundation8Kdata
Initial release2015200820142016
Current release2.0, September 20192.3.4, January 20213.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoAccess rights for users and roles

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