DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RocksDB

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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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

geospock.com

www.graphengine.io

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

GeoSpock

Microsoft

Chris Davis

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2010

2006

2016

2013

Current release

2.0, September 2019

5.10, January 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

.NET and C

Python

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

Linux
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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