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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Infobright vs. Lovefield vs. STSdb

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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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

geospock.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

GeoSpock

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Google

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2005

2014

2011

Current release

2.0, September 2019

5.10, January 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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More resources

Recent citations in the news

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

GeoSpock launches Spatial Big Data Platform 2.0
4 September 2019, VanillaPlus

Cambridge-based data analytics startup GeoSpock lands €4.6 million
2 October 2020, EU-Startups

nChain Leads Investment Round in Extreme-scale Data Firm GeoSpock
2 October 2020, AlexaBlockchain

Smart Cities, Autonomous Vehicles, Artificial General Intelligence Robotics: Q&A with Steve Marsh, GeoSpock
16 May 2018, ExchangeWire

provided by Google News

Big Data Analytics: A Game Changer for Infrastructure
13 July 2023, Spiceworks News and Insights

HEAVY.AI Launches HEAVY 7.0, Introducing Real-Time Machine Learning Capabilities
19 April 2023, businesswire.com

Making the most of geospatial intelligence
14 April 2023, InfoWorld

OmniSci Gets HEAVY New Name and New CEO
1 March 2022, Datanami

The insideBIGDATA IMPACT 50 List for Q4 2023
11 October 2023, insideBIGDATA

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Ignite Buys Database Vendor Infobright
2 May 2017, Datanami

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