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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. HarperDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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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

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.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

geospock.com

www.harperdb.io

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

google.github.io/lovefield

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

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

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

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

Developer

GeoSpock

HarperDB

Google

Microsoft

Initial release

2017

2013

2014

1989

Current release

2.0, September 2019

3.1, August 2021

2.7.6, April 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Node.js

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

Numeric data and Strings

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)

SQL-like data manipulation statements

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

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

Supported programming languages

.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

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

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

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

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

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights for users and roles

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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