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DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. PostGIS vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. PostGIS vs. SpatiaLite

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemSpatial extension of PostgreSQLSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitecachelot.iopostgis.netwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAlessandro Furieri
Initial release201520052008
Current release3.4.2, February 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++CC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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