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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. H2 vs. Memcached vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SQLite

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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.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	20.74
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#187	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

geospock.com

www.h2database.com

www.memcached.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

GeoSpock

Thomas Mueller

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2005

2003

1984

2000

Current release

2.0, September 2019

2.2.220, July 2023

1.6.25, March 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

HP Open VMS

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

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

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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