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System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Riak TS vs. SWC-DB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

postgis.net

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

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

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

Developer

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Transwarp

Initial release

2005

2015

2020

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

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++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

selectable replication factor

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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