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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. GeoSpock vs. gStore vs. Lovefield vs. TimesTen

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Name

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

Description

All 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 scale

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

geospock.com

en.gstore.cn

google.github.io/lovefield

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

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

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Mobiland AG

GeoSpock

Google

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2018

2016

2014

1998

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

2.0, September 2019

1.2, November 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

JDBC

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Recent citations in the news

Cambridge-based data analytics startup GeoSpock lands €4.6 million
2 October 2020, EU-Startups

nChain leads investment round in extreme-scale data firm GeoSpock
2 October 2020, CoinGeek

GeoSpock’s extreme-scale data mission in $5.4m funding boost
8 October 2020, Cambridge Independent

UK-based database GeoSpock bags $5.4m, to expand into
6 October 2020, Tech in Asia

Big data processing techniques to streamline analytics
5 October 2018, TechTarget

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