DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Greenplum vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Greenplum vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. RocksDB

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Name

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

Description

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Spatial extension of H2

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	9.23
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

geospock.com

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

GeoSpock

Pivotal Software Inc.

Thomas Mueller

CNRS

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2005

2013

Current release

2.0, September 2019

7.0.0, September 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

based on H2

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

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