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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. PostGIS vs. XTDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

postgis.net

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

FatCloud

Juxt Ltd.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2005

2019

2009

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Clojure

Server operating systems

Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

HTTP REST
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes, each node contains all data

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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