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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 vs. PostGIS vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 vs. PostGIS vs. XTDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  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 scaleCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Relational DBMS
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Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegeospock.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2postgis.netgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2postgis.net/­documentationwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGeoSpockIBMJuxt Ltd.
Initial release1983 infohost version20052019
Current release2.0, September 201912.1, October 20163.4.2, February 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC and C++CClojure
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, 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.noyesno
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, 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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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