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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. GeoSpock vs. PostGIS vs. TimesTen

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleSpatial extension of PostgreSQLIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgeospock.compostgis.netwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualspostgis.net/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAltibaseGeoSpockOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release199920051998
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.0, September 20193.4.2, February 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Java, JavascriptC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnouser defined functionsPL/SQL
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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