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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenQM vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenQM vs. VelocityDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 scaleApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegeospock.comignite.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperGeoSpockApache Software FoundationMicrosoftRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2015201019932011
Current release2.0, September 2019Apache Ignite 2.6V123.4-127.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC++, Java, .NetC++C#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesyesno
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Transact SQLyesno
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yes, with always 3 replicas availableyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelBased on Windows Authentication

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