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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. PostGIS vs. searchxml

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.68
Rank#76  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#386  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websiteduckdb.orgpostgis.netwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docspostgis.net/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
Developerinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release201820052015
Current release0.10, February 20243.4.2, February 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++CC++
Server operating systemsserver-lessWindows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infoon the application server
Triggersnoyesno
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 PostgreSQLyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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