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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrientDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrientDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  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 scaleTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score0.05
Rank#386  Overall
#15  Vector DBMS
Websitegeospock.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantorientdb.orgwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperGeoSpockSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release2014201020102023
Current release2.0, September 20193.2.29, March 20241.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaErlangJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesVector, Numeric and String
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.nonononono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nonoSQL-like query language, no joinsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJava, Javascriptno
TriggersnonoyesHooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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