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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. GridDB vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine vs. Yanza

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitegeospock.comgriddb.netsphinxsearch.comsplicemachine.comyanza.com
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netsphinxsearch.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperGeoSpockToshiba CorporationSphinx Technologies Inc.Splice MachineYanza
Initial release2013200120142015
Current release2.0, September 20195.1, August 20223.5.1, February 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC++C++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampnoyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoJavano
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID at container levelnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
GeoSpockGridDBSphinxSplice MachineYanza
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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