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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. KairosDB vs. PostGIS vs. Riak KV vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. KairosDB vs. PostGIS vs. Riak KV vs. ToroDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Spatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitegeospock.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbpostgis.netgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iopostgis.net/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperGeoSpockOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies8Kdata
Initial release2013200520092016
Current release2.0, September 20191.2.2, November 20183.4.2, February 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaCErlangJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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, categoricalnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsErlang
Triggersnonoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablesimple password-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users and roles

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