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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. OpenSearch vs. RDF4J vs. Rockset

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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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

geospock.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rdf4j.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.rockset.com

Developer

GeoSpock

Amazon Web Services

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Rockset

Initial release

2021

2004

2019

Current release

2.0, September 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Java
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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