DBMS > GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 vs. Pinecone vs. SQLite vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 vs. Pinecone vs. SQLite vs. TDengine

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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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

geospock.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.pinecone.io

www.sqlite.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

GeoSpock

IBM

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Dwayne Richard Hipp

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

1983

host version

2019

2000

2019

Current release

2.0, September 2019

12.1, October 2016

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

server-less

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

yes

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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