DBMS > GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OceanBase

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OceanBase

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Cloud-based data warehousing service

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.57
Rank	#149	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Website

geospock.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

jsqldb.org (offline)

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

en.oceanbase.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

Developer

GeoSpock

IBM

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Initial release

2014

2018

2014

2010

Current release

2.0, September 2019

0.8, December 2018

4.3.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication using Paxos

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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