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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GeoSpock vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Description

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

geospock.com

terminusdb.com

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

Technical documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

GeoSpock

DataChemist Ltd.

Oracle

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

Initial release

2008

2018

1998

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.0, September 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Javascript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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