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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Greenplum vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Greenplum vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ObjectBox

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  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 scaleAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegeospock.comgreenplum.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsobjectbox.io
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperGeoSpockPivotal Software Inc.SpotifyMicrosoftObjectBox Limited
Initial release2005201420162017
Current release2.0, September 20197.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaC++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2nonono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoTransact SQLno
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyesonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyes
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