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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. HBase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Splice Machine

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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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

geospock.com

hbase.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

GeoSpock

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Microsoft

Splice Machine

Initial release

2008

1989

2014

Current release

2.0, September 2019

2.3.4, January 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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