DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Hazelcast vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Hazelcast vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RavenDB

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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 widely adopted in-memory data grid

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

geospock.com

hazelcast.com

github.com/google/leveldb

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

GeoSpock

Hazelcast

Google

Microsoft

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2008

2011

2014

2010

Current release

2.0, September 2019

5.3.6, November 2023

1.23, February 2021

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

Role-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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