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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. PostGIS vs. SQL.JS vs. XTDB vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

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

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

postgis.net

sql.js.org

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

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Microsoft

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Juxt Ltd.

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2012

2005

2012

2019

2017

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

1.19, September 2021

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Clojure

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

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

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

HTTP REST
JDBC

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

yes, each node contains all data

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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