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DBMS > BigObject vs. GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. PostGIS

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogeospock.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldpostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.GeoSpockGoogle
Initial release201520142005
Current release2.0, September 20192.1.12, February 20173.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonouser defined functions
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenoyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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