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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. PouchDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. PouchDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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 scaleJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitegeospock.compouchdb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationpouchdb.com/­guideshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperGeoSpockApache Software FoundationSAP, formerly SybaseApache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2012199420141987
Current release2.0, September 20197.1.1, June 201916.1 SPS04, April 20193.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaScriptScalaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyes infovia viewsyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptyesnoyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexeryes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
SAP/Sybase Replication ServernoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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