DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Oracle vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Oracle vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sqrrl

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Widely used RDBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

geospock.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.postgres-xl.org

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

GeoSpock

Oracle

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

1980

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2012

Current release

2.0, September 2019

23c, September 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

HP Open VMS

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

yes, on a single node

ACID

MVCC

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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