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

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

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  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.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.07
Rank#366  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score24.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score4.52
Rank#80  Overall
#10  Key-value stores
Score0.16
Rank#336  Overall
#48  Document stores
Websitegeospock.comwww.hawkular.orgpostgis.netrocksdb.orggithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidepostgis.net/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGeoSpockCommunity supported by Red HatFacebook, Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release2014200520132019
Current release2.0, September 20193.4.2, February 20248.10.0, December 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaCC++Clojure
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes, 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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP RESTC++ API
Java API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLhorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLyesyes, 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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDyesACID
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenoyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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