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System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. RocksDB vs. SurrealDB

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score1.11
Rank#174  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Websitepostgis.netrocksdb.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikisurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperFacebook, Inc.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release200520132022
Current release3.4.2, February 20249.4.0, June 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageCC++Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Java API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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