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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. PlanetScale vs. TerarkDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. PlanetScale vs. TerarkDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 JavaScriptScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitegeospock.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldplanetscale.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdplanetscale.com/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperGeoSpockGooglePlanetScaleByteDance, originally TerarkDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2014202020162018
Current release2.0, September 20192.1.12, February 201711.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaScriptGoC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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, categoricalyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoproprietary syntaxnoyes
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnoneShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID at shard levelnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDByesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesnoRole-based access control

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