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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. PostGIS vs. SpatiaLite

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgpostgis.netwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docspostgis.net/­documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release200220052008
Current release1.1, February 20173.4.2, February 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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