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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. MySQL vs. PlanetScale vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. MySQL vs. PlanetScale vs. TerarkDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleWidely used open source RDBMSScalable, 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 MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1029.49
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score1.09
Rank#178  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitegeospock.comwww.mysql.complanetscale.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdev.mysql.com/­docplanetscale.com/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperGeoSpockOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunPlanetScaleByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release199520202016
Current release2.0, September 20199.0.0, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC and C++GoC++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntaxyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesno

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