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DBMS > GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Graphite vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Graphite vs. Heroic

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cngeospock.comcloud.google.com/­datastoregithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GeoSpockGoogleChris DavisSpotify
Initial release2004200820062014
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJava, JavascriptPythonJava
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedLinux
Unix
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, details hereNumeric data onlyyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language (GQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Sockets
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnousing Google App Enginenono
TriggersyesnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningAutomatic shardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication using Paxosnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolockingyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no

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