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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. GeoSpock vs. HBase vs. Quasardb vs. TimescaleDB

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NameDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAll data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.09
Rank#360  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitenewdatabase.comgeospock.comhbase.apache.orgquasar.aiwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xsphbase.apache.org/­book.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperMobiland AGGeoSpockApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetquasardbTimescale
Initial release2018200820092017
Current release1.1.263, October 20222.0, September 20192.3.4, January 20213.14.1, January 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaC++C
Server operating systemsWindowshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)yesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes infointeger and binarynumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalnoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersno, except callback-events from server when changes happenednoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesProprietary Sharding systemAutomatic shardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyeswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlWindows-ProfileAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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