DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. MonetDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. MonetDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TerarkDB

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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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A 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 model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

geospock.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.monetdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

help.sap.com/hana

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

GeoSpock

Google

MonetDB BV

SAP

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2014

2004

2010

2016

Current release

2.0, September 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding via remote tables

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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