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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Hazelcast vs. Lovefield vs. MonetDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Hazelcast vs. Lovefield vs. MonetDB vs. TerarkDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 scaleA widely adopted in-memory data gridEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitegeospock.comhazelcast.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperGeoSpockHazelcastGoogleMonetDB BVByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2008201420042016
Current release2.0, September 20195.3.6, November 20232.1.12, February 2017Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaJavaScriptCC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnoyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnoyes infoEventsUsing read-only observersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingnoneSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated Mapnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithm
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableRole-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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