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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. PostGIS vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

postgis.net

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2017

2005

2010

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

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

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Relationships in graphs

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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