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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Kdb vs. Quasardb vs. TimescaleDB vs. TimesTen

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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 scaleHigh performance Time Series DBMSDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score7.70
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score4.87
Rank#74  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.35
Rank#165  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitegeospock.comkx.comquasar.aiwww.timescale.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationcode.kx.comdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.timescale.comdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperGeoSpockKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcquasardbTimescaleOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003200920171998
Current release2.0, September 20193.6, May 20183.14.1, January 20242.13.0, November 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptqC++C
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binarynumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.noyesnoyesno
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language (q)SQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellPL/SQL
Triggersnoyes infowith viewsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingwith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablerights management via user accountsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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GeoSpockKdbQuasardbTimescaleDBTimesTen
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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