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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. NuoDB vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. NuoDB vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. TimescaleDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  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 scaleNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitegeospock.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasequasar.aiwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdoc.nuodb.comdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperGeoSpockDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.quasardbOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesTimescale
Initial release2013200920092017
Current release2.0, September 20193.14.1, January 20243.2.0, December 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC++C++ErlangC
Server operating systemshostedhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binarynonumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyes infowith tagsrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesSQL-like query languagenoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, SQLnoErlanguser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infono "single point of failure"yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infotunable commit protocolACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTemporary tableyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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