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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Greenplum vs. H2GIS vs. OpenSearch

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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.

Spatial extension of H2

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

geospock.com

greenplum.org

www.h2gis.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

GeoSpock

Pivotal Software Inc.

CNRS

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2005

2013

2021

Current release

2.0, September 2019

7.0.0, September 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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