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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#379	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#57	Key-value stores
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

arcadedb.com

postgis.net

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Arcade Data

Initial release

2021

2005

Current release

September 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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