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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. OpenQM vs. TerarkDB vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. OpenQM vs. TerarkDB vs. TimescaleDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 scaleEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitegeospock.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperGeoSpockGoogleRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsByteDance, originally TerarkTimescale
Initial release2014199320162017
Current release2.0, September 20192.1.12, February 20173.4-122.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaScriptC++C
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonumerics, 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.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnonoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBCC++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnoneyesnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDByesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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GeoSpockLovefieldOpenQM infoalso called QMTerarkDBTimescaleDB
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