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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Access vs. SiteWhere vs. TerarkDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 scaleEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegeospock.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperGeoSpockGoogleMicrosoftSiteWhereByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2014199220102016
Current release2.0, September 20192.1.12, February 20171902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaScriptC++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyespredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP RESTC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnonenoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDBnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Users with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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