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System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#350	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

postgis.net

www.sqlite.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transwarp

Initial release

2005

2000

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

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