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DBMS > OpenQM vs. PostGIS vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison OpenQM vs. PostGIS vs. ToroDB

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NameOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmpostgis.netgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperRocket Software, originally Martin Phillips8Kdata
Initial release199320052016
Current release3.4-123.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyes infowith some exceptionsyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users and roles

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