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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. GigaSpaces vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. GigaSpaces vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.10
Rank#126  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#290  Overall
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitegeospock.comwww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
google.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.heavy.aigithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperGeoSpockGigaspaces TechnologiesHEAVY.AI, Inc.Google
Initial release200020162014
Current release2.0, September 201915.5, September 20205.10, January 20222.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJava, C++, .NetC++ and CUDAJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsJDBCGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersnoyes, event driven architecturenoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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