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DBMS > Newts vs. PostGIS vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Newts vs. PostGIS vs. SurrealDB

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NameNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS based on CassandraSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#204  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteopennms.github.io/­newtspostgis.netsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipostgis.net/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperOpenNMS GroupSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release201420052022
Current release3.4.2, February 2024v1.1.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaCRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Java API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, based on authentication and database rules

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