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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Quasardb vs. TerarkDB vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Quasardb vs. TerarkDB vs. TimescaleDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  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 scaleDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitegeospock.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storequasar.aigithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedoc.quasar.ai/­masterbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperGeoSpockIBMquasardbByteDance, originally TerarkTimescale
Initial release2017200920162017
Current release2.0, September 20192.03.14.1, January 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC and C++C++C++C
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binarynonumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalnoyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query languagenoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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