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DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. GeoMesa vs. GeoSpock vs. Interbase vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. GeoMesa vs. GeoSpock vs. Interbase vs. RethinkDB

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.geomesa.orggeospock.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaserethinkdb.com
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaserethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperEnterpriseDBCCRi and othersGeoSpockEmbarcaderoThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2005201419842009
Current release14, December 20215.0.0, May 20242.0, September 2019InterBase 2020, December 20192.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCScalaJava, JavascriptCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nonono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
TriggersyesnonoyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangedepending on storage layerAutomatic shardingnoneSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layerInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes infoMVCC based
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.nodepending on storage layernoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissions

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