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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Kinetica vs. Lovefield vs. STSdb

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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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

geospock.com

www.kinetica.com

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

GeoSpock

Kinetica

Google

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2014

2011

Current release

2.0, September 2019

7.1, August 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C, C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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More resources

Recent citations in the news

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