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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. H2 vs. HarperDB vs. HyperSQL

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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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Website

geospock.com

www.h2database.com

www.harperdb.io

hsqldb.org

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.harperdb.io/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

GeoSpock

Thomas Mueller

HarperDB

Initial release

2005

2017

2001

Current release

2.0, September 2019

2.2.220, July 2023

3.1, August 2021

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

based on BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java

Node.js

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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How GeoSpock is supercharging geospatial analytics
23 February 2021, ComputerWeekly.com

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7 February 2018, ZDNet

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