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DBMS > DuckDB vs. GeoSpock vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. GeoSpock vs. PostGIS

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score3.40
Rank#103  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#339  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score28.40
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orggeospock.com/postgis.net
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docsdocs.geospock.com/Content/Home.htmpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperGeoSpock
Initial release20182005
Current release0.2, August 20202.0, September 20193.3.4, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
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Implementation languageC++Java, JavascriptC
Server operating systemsserver-lesshosted
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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