DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TiDB vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TiDB vs. Trino

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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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

geospock.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

pingcap.com

trino.io

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

GeoSpock

Microsoft

Oracle

PingCAP, Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

1989

2007

2016

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

2.0, September 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

14.1, August 2023

8.1.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++

Java

Go, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes, with selectable consistency level

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

configurable

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

SQL standard access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing models

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