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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Greenplum vs. JaguarDB vs. PlanetScale vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Greenplum vs. JaguarDB vs. PlanetScale vs. Postgres-XL

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitegeospock.comgreenplum.orgwww.jaguardb.complanetscale.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlplanetscale.com/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperGeoSpockPivotal Software Inc.DataJaguar, Inc.PlanetScale
Initial release2005201520202014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release2.0, September 20197.0.0, September 20233.3 July 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesGoC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID at shard levelACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
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.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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