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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. HBase vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb vs. VelocityDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 scaleWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegeospock.comhbase.apache.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4velocitydb.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperGeoSpockApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SCVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2008201420112011
Current release2.0, September 20192.3.4, January 20213.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 20157.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaScalaC#C#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
WindowsAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nononono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanonono
TriggersnoyesnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark CorenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonoACID
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnonoBased on Windows Authentication

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