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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Netezza vs. PostGIS vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Netezza vs. PostGIS vs. XTDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  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 scaleData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegeospock.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzapostgis.netgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGeoSpockIBMJuxt Ltd.
Initial release200020052019
Current release2.0, September 20193.4.2, February 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptCClojure
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoincluded in applianceAll 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 methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
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 tableUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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GeoSpockNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMPostGISXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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