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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Prometheus vs. RisingWave vs. ToroDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	7.56
Rank	#49	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#237	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Website

geospock.com

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

prometheus.io

www.risingwave.com/database

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

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

prometheus.io/docs

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

Developer

GeoSpock

Microsoft

RisingWave Labs

8Kdata

Initial release

1989

2015

2022

2016

Current release

2.0, September 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

Standard SQL-types and JSON

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

Import of XML data possible

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
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

by Federation

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
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

Users and Roles

Access rights for users and roles

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