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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. PostGIS vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. PostGIS vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  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 scaleSpatial extension of PostgreSQLRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRDF storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.72
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitegeospock.compostgis.netrdf4j.orgrocksdb.org
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperGeoSpockSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Facebook, Inc.
Initial release200520042013
Current release2.0, September 20193.4.2, February 20249.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptCJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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, categoricalyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJava
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneyes
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 integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyes infobased on PostgreSQLnono

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