DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. searchxml

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Name

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

Description

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

geospock.com

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

GeoSpock

SAP

formerly Sybase

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1992

2015

Current release

2.0, September 2019

10 R1, October 2018

17, July 2015

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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