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System Properties Comparison Oracle Coherence vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

postgis.net

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Oracle

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2007

2005

2018

Current release

14.1, August 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

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