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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. HarperDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. PostGIS vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. HarperDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. PostGIS vs. XTDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 scaleUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegeospock.comwww.harperdb.iowww.hawkular.orgpostgis.netgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.harperdb.io/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidepostgis.net/­documentationwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGeoSpockHarperDBCommunity supported by Red HatJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2017201420052019
Current release2.0, September 20193.1, August 20213.4.2, February 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptNode.jsJavaCClojure
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesdynamic schemaschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like data manipulation statementsnoyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HTTP RESTHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1nouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users and rolesnoyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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