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

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

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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.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

geospock.com

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

GeoSpock

Pivotal Software Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2005

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2012

Current release

2.0, September 2019

7.0.0, September 2023

3.3 July 2023

10 R1, October 2018

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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