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DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. RavenDB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. RavenDB vs. WakandaDB

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comgeospock.comcloud.google.com/­spannerravendb.netwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docscloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsravendb.net/­docswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperEnterpriseDBGeoSpockGoogleHibernating RhinosWakanda SAS
Initial release2005201720102012
Current release14, December 20212.0, September 20195.4, July 20222.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageCJava, JavascriptC#C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedhostedLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like query language (RQL)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonoyesyes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeAutomatic shardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Multi-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoStrict serializable isolationACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Authorization levels configured per client per databaseyes

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