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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. PostGIS vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. PostGIS vs. Realm

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument 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
Score7.18
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitegeospock.compostgis.netrealm.io
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperGeoSpockRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20052014
Current release2.0, September 20193.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnoyesyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes

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