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System Properties Comparison NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. Riak KV vs. SpatiaLite vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Spatial extension of SQLite

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

postgis.net

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

postgis.net/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Alessandro Furieri

TempoIQ

Initial release

2013

2005

2009

2008

2012

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

based on PostgreSQL

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes, using Riak Security

simple authentication-based access control

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