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DBMS > PostGIS vs. SQLite vs. Stardog vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. SQLite vs. Stardog vs. YTsaurus

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.11
Rank#340  Overall
#45  Document stores
#50  Key-value stores
Websitepostgis.netwww.sqlite.orgwww.stardog.comytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmldocs.stardog.comytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperDwayne Richard HippStardog-UnionYandex
Initial release2005200020102023
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 20247.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoPublic Domaincommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCCJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
macOS
Windows
Ubuntu
Data schemeyesyes infodynamic column typesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL ServerYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesActionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersyesyesyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneMulti-source replication in HA-Clusteryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infovia file-system locksyesyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess Control Lists

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