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DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed 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 extension of H2A multi-model DBMS and application serverA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
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Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#131  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score3.55
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.h2gis.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperEnterpriseDBCCRi and othersCNRSInterSystemsMicrosoft
Initial release20052014201319972012
Current release14, December 20215.0.1, July 20242018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageCScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesdepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaC#
C++
Java
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes infobased on H2yesno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangedepending on storage layernonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layeryes infobased on H2Source-replica replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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 layeryesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infobased on H2Access rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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