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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. TerarkDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 scaleA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegeospock.comcloud.google.com/­spannergoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmanticoresearch.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmanual.manticoresearch.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperGeoSpockGoogleGoogleManticore SoftwareByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2017201420172016
Current release2.0, September 20192.1.12, February 20176.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanno
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.nononoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsno
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.noneSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infousing MemoryDByes
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)nonono

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