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DBMS > PlanetScale vs. PostGIS vs. Realm vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison PlanetScale vs. PostGIS vs. Realm vs. WakandaDB

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NamePlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteplanetscale.compostgis.netrealm.iowakanda.github.io
Technical documentationplanetscale.com/­docspostgis.net/­documentationrealm.io/­docswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperPlanetScaleRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Wakanda SAS
Initial release2020200520142012
Current release3.4.2, February 20242.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoCC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsDocker
Linux
macOS
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functionsno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes
Triggersyesyesyes infoChange Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at shard levelACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesyes

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