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System Properties Comparison Netezza vs. PostGIS

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NameNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzapostgis.net
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperIBM
Initial release20002005
Current release3.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemsLinux infoincluded in appliance
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.yes
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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Netezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMPostGIS
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