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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. PostGIS vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	7.39
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	19.61
Rank	#30	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.50
Rank	#141	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

postgis.net

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

postgis.net/documentation

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2018

2005

2008

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Data scheme

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

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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