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

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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

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

geospock.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

velocitydb.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

GeoSpock

Microsoft

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

VelocityDB Inc

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2010

1993

2011

2012

Current release

2.0, September 2019

V12

3.4-12

7.x

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Based on Windows Authentication

yes

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