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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Heroic vs. Hive vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

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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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

geospock.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

hive.apache.org

rocksdb.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

GeoSpock

Spotify

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

2012

2013

2018

Current release

2.0, September 2019

3.1.3, April 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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