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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. RDF4J vs. TimescaleDB vs. Yanza

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Name

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

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

Description

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

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

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	4.06
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

geospock.com

rdf4j.org

www.timescale.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.timescale.com

Developer

GeoSpock

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

Timescale

Yanza

Initial release

2004

2017

2015

Current release

2.0, September 2019

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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