DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Kdb vs. RocksDB vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Kdb vs. RocksDB vs. SingleStore

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Name

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

Description

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

High performance Time Series DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

geospock.com

kx.com

rocksdb.org

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

GeoSpock

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Facebook, Inc.

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2013

Current release

2.0, September 2019

3.6, May 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

rights management via user accounts

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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F ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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