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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PostGIS vs. XTDB

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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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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	#1	Spatial DBMS

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	#46	Document stores

Website

geospock.com

www.hawkular.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

postgis.net

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

postgis.net/documentation

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

GeoSpock

Community supported by Red Hat

Percona

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2015

2005

2019

Current release

2.0, September 2019

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

3.4.2, February 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes, each node contains all data

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights for users and roles

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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