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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb vs. Teradata Aster vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb vs. Teradata Aster vs. ToroDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitegeospock.comspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperGeoSpockApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SCTeradata8Kdata
Initial release2014201120052016
Current release2.0, September 20193.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptScalaC#Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nonoyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoR packages
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingyes, utilizing Spark CorenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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