DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Google BigQuery vs. HugeGraph vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Google BigQuery vs. HugeGraph vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield

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Name

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

Description

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

geospock.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

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

Developer

GeoSpock

Google

Baidu

Google

Initial release

2010

2018

2013

2014

Current release

2.0, September 2019

0.9

2.7.6, April 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Users, roles and permissions

simple rights management via user accounts

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