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System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. SWC-DB vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Website

postgis.net

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

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Alex Kashirin

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2005

2020

2016

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

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

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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