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System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. WakandaDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

postgis.net

quasar.ai

wakanda.github.io

yanza.com

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

quasardb

Wakanda SAS

Yanza

Initial release

2005

2009

2012

2015

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

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