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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenQM vs. QuestDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenQM vs. QuestDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 scaleDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegeospock.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmquestdb.iovelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlquestdb.io/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperGeoSpockMicrosoftRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsQuestDB Technology IncVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2010199320142011
Current release2.0, September 2019V123.4-127.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC#
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesnoSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLyesnono
TriggersnoyesyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingyeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availableyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelBased on Windows Authentication
More information provided by the system vendor
GeoSpockMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureOpenQM infoalso called QMQuestDBVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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