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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. SpatiaLite

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasepostgis.netquasar.aiwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlpostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperMicrosoftquasardbAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2010200520092008
Current releaseV123.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++CC++C++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availableyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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