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DBMS > Netezza vs. PostGIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Netezza vs. PostGIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

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NameNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen Source Time Series DBMSSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzapostgis.netwww.postgres-xl.orgsiridb.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperIBMCesbitMireo
Initial release200020052014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20172020
Current release3.4.2, February 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCCCC++
Server operating systemsLinux infoincluded in applianceLinux
macOS
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoNumeric datayes
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.yesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLhorizontal partitioningShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCCnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsyes

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Netezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMPostGISPostgres-XLSiriDBSpaceTime
DB-Engines blog posts

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Recent citations in the news

IBM announces availability of the high-performance, cloud-native Netezza Performance Server as a Service on AWS
11 July 2023, IBM

AWS and IBM Netezza come out in support of Iceberg in table format face-off
1 August 2023, The Register

Migrating your Netezza data warehouse to Amazon Redshift | Amazon Web Services
27 May 2020, AWS Blog

IBM Brings Back a Netezza, Attacks Yellowbrick
29 June 2020, Datanami

Netezza Performance Server
12 August 2020, IBM

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