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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. Postgres-XL

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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 scaleGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitegeospock.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docshugegraph.apache.org/­docsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperGeoSpockGoogleBaiduMicrosoft
Initial release2015201819922014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release2.0, September 20190.91902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaC++C
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS
Unix
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineuser defined functions
Triggersnononoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesvia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoedges in graphyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users, roles and permissionsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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