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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. GeoSpock vs. Google BigQuery vs. Realm

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

The 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.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

geospock.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

realm.io

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

realm.io/docs

Developer

EnterpriseDB

GeoSpock

Google

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2005

2010

2014

Current release

14, December 2021

2.0, September 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

user defined functions

in JavaScript

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

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