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DBMS > GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. PostGIS

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#71  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cngeospock.comcloud.google.com/­datastorepostgis.net
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GeoSpockGoogle
Initial release200420082005
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.0, September 20193.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJava, JavascriptC
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, details hereyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language (GQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnousing Google App Engineuser defined functions
TriggersyesnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningAutomatic shardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication using Paxosyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on PostgreSQL

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