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

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

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  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 scaleHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.04
Rank#374  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score0.98
Rank#196  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#351  Overall
#47  Document stores
Websitegeospock.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachepostgis.netgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidewww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docspostgis.net/­documentationwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGeoSpockCommunity supported by Red HatAlachisoftJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2014200520052019
Current release2.0, September 20195.3.3, April 20243.4.2, February 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaCClojure
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesyes, 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, categoricalnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP RESTIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infoNotificationsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, with selectable consistency levelyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, 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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenoAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)yes infobased on PostgreSQL
More information provided by the system vendor
GeoSpockHawkular MetricsNCachePostGISXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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