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System Properties Comparison Oracle Coherence vs. PostGIS vs. Spark SQL vs. TerarkDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

postgis.net

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

postgis.net/documentation

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Oracle

Apache Software Foundation

ByteDance, originally Terark

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2007

2005

2014

2016

1987

Current release

14.1, August 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java

Java
Python
R
Scala

C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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