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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. JSqlDb vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

geospock.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.memcached.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

GeoSpock

Konrad von Backstrom

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Microsoft

Initial release

2018

2003

2014

Current release

2.0, September 2019

0.8, December 2018

1.6.25, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Proprietary protocol

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

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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