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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. mSQL vs. PostGIS

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Name	Geode  Xexclude from comparison	mSQL Mini SQL  Xexclude from comparison	PostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes	mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS	Spatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database model	Key-value store	Relational DBMS	Spatial DBMS
Secondary database models			Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.67 Rank #138   Overall #26   Key-value stores	Score 1.68 Rank #134   Overall #66   Relational DBMS	Score 30.88 Rank #28   Overall #1   Spatial DBMS
Website	geode.apache.org	hughestech.com.au/­products/­msql	postgis.net
Technical documentation	geode.apache.org/­docs		postgis.net/­documentation
Developer	Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.	Hughes Technologies
Initial release	2002	1994	2005
Current release	1.1, February 2017	4.4, October 2021	3.2.1, February 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire	commercial free licenses can be provided	Open Source GPL v2.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Java	C	C
Server operating systems	All OS with a Java VM the JDK (8 or later) is also required	AIX HP-UX Linux OS X Solaris SPARC/x86 Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	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.	no	no	yes
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language (OQL)	A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers	yes
APIs and other access methods	Java Client API Memcached protocol RESTful HTTP API	JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages	.Net All JVM based languages C++ Groovy Java Scala	C C++ Delphi Java Perl PHP Tcl
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	user defined functions	no	user defined functions
Triggers	yes Cache Event Listeners	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	none	yes based on PostgreSQL
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Multi-source replication	none	yes based on PostgreSQL
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Eventual Consistency	none	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes, on a single node	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	no	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no	no
User concepts Access control	Access rights per client and object definable	no	yes based on PostgreSQL
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