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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. KeyDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Quasardb vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. KeyDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Quasardb vs. TimescaleDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  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 scaleAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsWidely used in-process key-value storeDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitegeospock.comgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlquasar.aiwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.keydb.devdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperGeoSpockEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OraclequasardbTimescale
Initial release2019199420092017
Current release2.0, September 201918.1.40, May 20203.14.1, January 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source infocommercial license availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++C
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesnoyes infointeger and binarynumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnoyes
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBCProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonoyes infoonly for the SQL APInoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablesimple password-based access control and ACLnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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