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System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

postgis.net

www.postgres-xl.org

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Simer Plaha

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2005

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2018

2020

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

10 R1, October 2018

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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