DBMS > Derby vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. searchxml

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Name

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

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.30
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	3.58
Rank	#92	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

db.apache.org/derby

geospock.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

GeoSpock

Google

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1997

2015

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2.0, September 2019

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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